The CIA’s analysts predicted that after Khomeini’s rise in power, and after the war with Iraq erupted in 1980, the Iranian regime will resort to using religion, and particularly sectarianism ...

Minutes has been covering the geopolitical situation in Iranian for almost five decades. Here are some of the reports we've ...

The U.S.-orchestrated coup in 1953 ousted Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Its legacy remains contentious and complicated for Iranian authorities and its people.

As an advocate and supporter of the CIA, I wish to clarify that, unlike Islamic terrorists, mullahs, and followers of Mossadegh and Khomeini, I do not intend to perpetuate the myth of the CIA's ...

CIA-backed coup in Iran remains one of the most consequential regime changes orchestrated by the United States. Decades later, with tensions rising again between the US, Israel, and Iran, echoes of ...

Within a few months of Khomeini’s return, revolutionary tribunals had passed death sentences on 83 former SAVAK officers. By the end of 1979, Khomeini’s operatives had assassinated the shah ...

Khomeini and his aides also reached out to the administration of then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963, according to a CIA analysis written in 1980 that was partially released to the public ...

A journalist, an academic and a CIA analyst reflect on their own experiences meeting and learning about Khomeini, right before the Iranian Revolution. Interview footage courtesy of Robert MacNeil ...

The CIA insisted it had never proposed a specific operation to the ... Charles de Gaulle, Salvador Allende, Michael Manley, Ayatollah Khomeini, the nine comandantes of the Sandinista ...

The real story behind Ben Affleck's new film -- which tells how the CIA rescued American hostages in Iran in 1980 while posing as a film crew -- involves a kooky sci-fi script and phony trade ads.