In 1980 I was invited along with a cohort of historians to attend a conference at Harvard on “Knowing Your Enemies”. We soon discovered that it was funded by the CIA, who wanted to see if they could ...

GREENWICH — As Americans react to the U.S. air strikes on Iran this weekend, there's renewed attention on Iran's rulers, past and present. The royal family of Iran has roots in southern Connecticut, ...

March 6 -- Farah Pahlavi is a 65-year-old woman living a quiet life in Potomac, Md., but 25 years ago she was an empress living at the center of a cultural and political upheaval that continues to ...

Six years later, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel to retake ...

The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.

On Monday, Reza Pahlavi — the son of Iran’s last shah — gave a speech proclaiming the Islamic Republic’s end was near. “This is our Berlin Wall moment,” Pahlavi declared. He was dressed in a white ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of ...

A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and a picture book celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year's winners of the Kirkus Prize, ...

An article on Haaretz has reported a wide-ranging Israeli influence campaign targeting Iran, aiming to promote the return of ...

Although most people know the story of how the Iranian hostage crisis helped bring down President Jimmy Carter, the truth is that Iran has been a challenge for American diplomats for decades. In 1924, ...