Gaza Hostage Deal Could Come as Trump Takes Office, in Echoes of 1981
Dozens of American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year were freed just as Ronald Reagan was ...
Which President Will Get Credit for a Gaza Cease-Fire?
WASHINGTON—The finalizing of the cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas owes much to the impending transfer of power from ...
Iranians react to Carter's death with much criticism, little praise
Callers to VOA Persian program accuse Carter of enabling Iran's Islamic Revolution; US nonprofit expresses admiration for his ...
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"The Shah Is Gone"
TEHRAN – "The Shah Is Gone" dominated Iranian newspaper headlines on January 16, 1979, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last ...
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In Iran, late Jimmy Carter remembered as 'architect of sanctions'
However, relations dramatically soured after the 1979 Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. On November 4, ...
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The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances
“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.