A new book by Manx-born author Robert Kermeen examines the life and influence of Queen Soraya Bakhtiari, the second wife of the Shah of Iran, and poses a provocative question: Did Queen Soraya’s ...

As the leftist candidate stands on the brink of becoming New York City’s next mayor, Iran’s history offers a stark warning.

In 1980 I was invited along with a cohort of historians to attend a conference at Harvard on “Knowing Your Enemies”. We soon discovered that it was funded by the CIA, who wanted to see if they could ...

Uprising plotters have a firm eye on nightmare scenarios such as Syria and Iraq which fell into bloody anarchy after ...

For over 40 years, Scott Anderson has been one of America’s most incisive foreign correspondents, filing dispatches from trouble spots around the world with a novelist’s eye and a talent for ...

Every November 4, Iran commemorates an episode that, transcending the boundaries of historical anecdote to become a founding ...

Although most people know the story of how the Iranian hostage crisis helped bring down President Jimmy Carter, the truth is that Iran has been a challenge for American diplomats for decades. In 1924, ...

While many in Iran’s divided diaspora opposed Israel’s campaign, some took the war as a chance to amplify their ideas about Iran’s future. By The New York Times After 12 days of devastating Israeli ...

Iran’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ali Nikzad said the takeover of the US embassy in 1979 was a response to decades of ...

January 16, 1979 - The Shah flees Iran and goes to Egypt. February 1 ... September 12, 1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini sets new terms for the hostages’ release, including the return of the late Shah’s ...