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 Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...