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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Within a few months of Khomeini’s return, revolutionary tribunals had passed death sentences on 83 former SAVAK officers. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Even the CIA, in a 1983 analysis on him, acknowledged that Iran’s revolution could not have happened without him. ... Khomeini’s family did not stay out of politics for long, ...