Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini greets the crowd at Tehran University after his return to Iran from exile in France during the Iranian Revolution. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images) Ayatollah ...
Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...
The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the U.S. depended on as a pillar of regional security, the shah, gave way to a ...
Scott Anderson’s latest work arrives at a moment when the American foreign policy establishment continues to grapple with the consequences of decades of interventionist miscalculations in the Middle ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a constant source of anguish for its own people, its neighbors, and the broader world. The government likely executes more people than any state except China. It ...