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

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

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

An Anti-American crowd demonstrates outside of the U.S. Embassy, November 21, 1979. The followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini ...

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

Iran Air launched direct flights between Quetta and Zahedan on Friday, improving travel between Pakistan and Iran. The Airbus ...

His name was Michael Metrinko. “Not dead,” Metrinko quipped recently, “although there were times when maybe I wished I was.” Now in his late 70s, the gregarious, acid-tongued Metrinko spent much of ...

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

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

The U.S. has announced a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. U.S ...

On 22 June this year, seven B2 Stealth bombers flew on a 37-hour round trip from bases in the US to drop 14 30,000lb bombs on ...

In a new book, the journalist Scott Anderson argues that America’s failure to predict and understand the 1979 revolution has ...