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 World Cup campaign has been shadowed by the deep division between the Iranian people and the regime that rules them. It's a divide that has played out through a row over a flag: not the one on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A man and a woman flash the victory sign as they sit on their motorbike in front of a banner with graphic depicting the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kissing head of the late ...
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 ...
An Iranian foreign ministry official sought to temper expectations, saying there were no plans for a Sunday signing and an agreement could be inked in the coming days. Jonathan Swan and Abdi Latif ...