The two Middle East powers, in the throes of crises, are pulling together — which won't make certain governments too happy ...

"The U.S. and the Zionist regime plotted to install a puppet exile government headed by the disgraced Pahlavi heir, coordinating closely with known Zionist operatives," Iran's spy ...

A recent spate of arrests highlights Iran's intensifying crackdown on suspected spies amid tensions with the U.S. and Israel.

In 1980 I was invited along with a cohort of historians to attend a conference at Harvard on “Knowing Your Enemies”. We soon ...

While global headlines fixate on Iran’s nuclear program or its regional power plays, another crisis rages just beneath the ...

After the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) fell out of favour with the Supreme Leader, who ...

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah, said he planned to launch a separate website for ordinary Iranians to join the campaign to topple the Islamic regime in Iran ...

The MEK, known in English as People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, were a powerful leftist-Islamist group that staged ...

Scott Anderson’s brilliant account of the fall of the shah is a tale of greed, inequality and a blinkered US government ...

The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.

Once a revolutionary militia, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps built power through ideology and fear. Now, after devastating losses, its future is uncertain. After major military ...

The shah recognized the dual use for nuclear power, and in June 1974 even told an American journalist that “Iran would have nuclear weapons without a doubt sooner than you think,” a remark he ...