1967 — Iran takes possession of the Tehran Research Reactor supplied by America under the "Atoms for Peace" program. 1979 — U.S. ally Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fatally ill, flees Iran as popular ...

The White House revived diplomacy efforts with Iran in February to solve the long-running dispute over its uranium enrichment capabilities, with the West fearing the country could develop a nuclear ...

The Iranian revolution of 1979 saw the US-backed rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi collapse almost overnight, to be replaced with an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The impact of ...

Iran’s history shows it is willing to dig in, even when it may suffer big losses. By Neil MacFarquhar Iran, fearing that its hold over the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes was gradually ...

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and ...

The strategic and spiritual resonance of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply woven into Iran’s identity. It represents a profound geographic constant in Iranian history. This narrow waterway has served as ...

After months-long delays, Tehran is in the midst of organising a six-day, multi-city funeral for late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid tight security and fragile US-Iran talks over Hormuz, nuclear and ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Arthur I. Cyr is the author of “After the Cold War – American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia.” Chaos characterizes the Middle East, and that has been true for most of the very long ...

Comic book author Marjane Satrapi passed away last week in Paris at age 56, just before conflict between Israel and her native Iran re-erupted. While her work has enjoyed enduring fame, the present ...

INGLEWOOD, California, June 21 (Reuters) - Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei believes his team's unbeaten start to the World Cup will be written in their footballing history after a turbulent build-up marked ...