From 1941 to 1979, the Shah pushed Iran toward secular governance and closer ties with Britain and the United States, both of ...

British-Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi called out progressive activists who have not spoken out on the Iranian regime's ...

She said she remembers her family dancing and experiencing a much different life before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Long before Iran became an Islamic republic, it was a Western-oriented, secular country that encouraged education and economic development.

Ayatollah Khomeini’s bait-and-switch game in the early years of the Islamic regime turned many of the people against it. They ...

Author and journalist Davar Ardalan has seen Iran up close before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. On this week’s “More ...

Dina Nayeri’s family fled Iran when she was a child. Now, amid an ongoing protest movement during which the regime has killed thousands, she hears echoes of regime talking points seeping into the West ...

As U.S. and Israeli strikes hit Iran, musicians and civilians document protests, celebration, and resistance during a pivotal moment in history.

Khamenei assumed power following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, inheriting a revolutionary state still ...

A man closely watching the conflict in Iran from his Maryland home escaped the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran by hiding with ...

The assassination of the second leader of the Islamic Republic, who had no designated successor, throws its future into doubt ...

Iran’s eliminated tyrant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spent nearly 37 years as the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, overseeing a murderous, oppressive regime with more than 30,000 state-sponsored ...