For 47 years, countless millions have been murdered at the orders of the Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei. Morality Police suppression, the Iran-Iraq War and worldwide terrorism have all ...

In a New Year's eve toast in 1977, US president Jimmy Carter hailed the Shah of Iran and called the country 'an island of ...

On the morning of Oct. 31, 1978, Iran’s 19-year-old crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, stood beside President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office. Officially, he was the heir to one of America’s closest allies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Current protests in Iran are reminiscent of the uprising in 1979 that ...

The shah of Iran faced a secular opposition that wanted to restore constitutional government. Washington continued to back his dictatorship as it faced mass protests, paving the way for Ruhollah ...