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.

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

Ayatollah Khomeini was the face of Iran's revolution, ... Even the CIA, in a 1983 analysis on him, acknowledged that Iran's revolution could not have happened without him.

Khomeini wanted the Shah's chief benefactor to understand that he had no quarrel with America. "Khomeini explained he was not opposed to American interests in Iran," according to a 1980 CIA ...

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 ...

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 ...

How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. ... The mob quickly fanned across the 27-acre compound, waving posters of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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 ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took a swipe at President Donald Trump just days after the U.S. struck Tehran's ...