This year, against the backdrop of Ramadan and rising discontent, the celebrations took on an unmistakably political tone.

Soon after oil was discovered in Iran in 1908 as the first country in the region, colonial powers, particularly Britain and ...

The nationalization of the oil industry in the Islamic Republic of Iran is the manifestation of a clear-cut victory over ...

Iran has a history behind its use of the F-14 Tomcat fighter, but its fleet of the jets have led to some friction over time ...

On this bonus Battle Lines episode, Roland Oliphant speaks with Reza Pahlavi, the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of ...

A letter U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran’s rapidly ...

Monarchy in Iran centralized power in the hands of an ... The Pahlavi dynasty, under Reza Shah and his son Mohammad Reza Shah, was characterized by centralization and suppression.

At that time, Iran was not an overtly, strict Islamic country as it was under the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran. He came to power in 1941. It can be said that Iran was ...

I told them that just as we say in Judaism, ‘Next year in a rebuilt Jerusalem,’ we say, ‘Next year in Tehran,’” she said.

EXCLUSIVE: British-Iranian screenwriter Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls, Testament of Youth) is attached to pen the untitled ...

Sabeti in the 1970s served as the deputy head of SAVAK, the feared security and intelligence service of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has obtained a copy of ...

Iran's president accused his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Monday of seeking to bring the Islamic republic 'to its knees' ...