Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, faces new allegations from U.S.-based scholar Mehrzad Boroujerdi, who accuses him of involvement in his father’s 1978 killing.

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

After months of ever-growing protests and strikes targeting his despotic rule, the Shah of Iran desperately tried to appease the masses in a Nov. 6, 1978, televised broadcast. “I heard the voice of ...

The Iranian revolution in 1978-1980 was one of the watershed events of the last fifty years. It was also considerably more complex than the usually two-dimensional version presented in western ...

Offering a new view of one of America’s most important, strained, and misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty tells the ...

I am always intrigued to read or hear what perspectives other Jewish groups have when it comes to Iranian Jews. An article this week by Jewish anthropologist and author Karen L. Pliskin in the Forward ...

DUBAI, United Arab EmiratesDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A long-detained opposition leader in Iran on Saturday compared a bloody crackdown on those protesting government-set gasoline prices rising ...

Key point: Protests have been wracking Iran as its economy falters. The events of the last few weeks in Iran indicate that the country may be in for a repetition of the events of 1978 that led to the ...

Twenty-two-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, the Allies’ straw man in Iran, proved last week that he is not too young to understand affairs. In his first statement for the U.S. press, he made clear that ...

1978 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s authoritarian rule sparks demonstrations and riots. January 16, 1979 - The Shah flees Iran and goes to Egypt. February 1, 1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns ...

The events of the last few weeks in Iran indicate that the country may be in for a repetition of the events of 1978 that led to the toppling of the Shah. Anti-government protests in Iran have reached ...