Here’s what to know about Iran’s nuclear program and the tensions that have stalked relations between Tehran and Washington ...

THE mummified remains of the former Iranian leader Reza Shah Pahlavi could have been unearthed during an excavation of a ...

Mercedes-Benz says that when it comes to cars, it's "The Best or Nothing." For a striking number of dictators, the best has ...

The hostage crisis between 1979 and 1981 needs to be remembered as a signal of the kind of regime with which we are again negotiating.

Forty-five years ago, on April 25, 1980, the United States launched a covert military operation in the northeastern Iranian ...

Iran was once one of the U.S.’s top allies in the Mideast under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who purchased American military weapons and allowed CIA technicians to run secret listening posts ...

1979 — Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fatally ill, flees Iran as popular protests against him surge. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and the Islamic Revolution sweeps him to power. Students ...

1979 — Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fatally ill, flees Iran as popular protests against him surge. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and the Islamic Revolution sweeps him to power.

Reza Khan toppled the Qajar dynasty in Iran in a coup in 1921 and was crowned with the help of the British, subsequently on ...