In the 1970s, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, envisioned transforming Iran into a “Great Civilization,” ...

Mainly exiles and German-Iranians protest against the mullah regime in Iran at a rally in Frankfurt, Germany. One man holds a ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979, which toppled Iran's Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was one of the most significant political ...

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran underwent significant modernization and Westernization under the Pahlavi dynasty, ...

The shah of Iran was thought to be an unshakable monarch. How did America’s intelligence community get it so wrong?

One of the often-universal themes in this wonderful book is how autocracies that outstay their welcome are often replaced by ...

It didn’t seem like a huge deal. Yet somehow the unrest continued, increased, and in thirteen months brought the Shah’s ...

With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson & Transformed ...

Iran's top spy agency on Monday accused the United States and Israel of plotting to install a puppet government in Tehran led by the exiled son of the last Iranian monarch.

What the Americans want is to destabilise Iran. For destabilising Iran, you need access. 'One access is through Iraq. The ...

Iran is an oddity – a non-Arab Muslim nation, global leader of the Shite sect, and the strategically located Eastern boundary of the Middle East. It is one of t ...