Soon, a group of students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Dozens of Americans were taken hostage. The Ayatollah did not ...

From Mike Wallace's memorable interview with Ayatollah Khomeini just days after the Iranian Hostage Crisis began, to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad telling Scott Pelley he was "like a CIA ...

The U.S. has not publicly called for regime change in the current Israel-Iran conflict, but over 70 years ago, it played a ...

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

This is the final instalment in a series exploring the complex history of US-Iran relations. Part 1 examined the geopolitical context leading to the 1953 coup, and Part 2 detailed the CIA’s role in ...

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 ...

To cut a long story short, Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini — the architect of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and Iran’s first Supreme Leader -- has his roots firmly planted in India's Uttar Pradesh.

Some have called for a regime change in Iran. Though a change is unlikely to happen by itself, should President Donald Trump push for one, he would be making a grave mistake. It is not the first ...

In some cases, a ceasefire can be the enemy of peace. That could be the case with the ceasefire ordered by US President ...

As Ray Takeyh, a leading scholar of Iran and a former senior adviser in the Obama State Department, wrote in Foreign Affairs, ...

The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, says his agency has "credible intelligence" that indicates Iran's nuclear programme ...

The 28-year-old great-grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic, was standing on a balcony in Tehran in the middle of the night on Tuesday as sounds of ...