Dozens of American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year were freed just as Ronald Reagan was ...

TEHRAN – "The Shah Is Gone" dominated Iranian newspaper headlines on January 16, 1979, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last ...

“We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared, in 1980, after ousting the last of several Iranian monarchies that had endured for two millennia.

However, relations dramatically soured after the 1979 Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. On November 4, ...