Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across Iran, at the Iranian embassies in London, Washington, and Ottawa, Canberra and in cyberspace, the revolutionary banner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the ...

Near an imposing building in the center of Teheran, there stands an extraordinarily graceful arch, created for a Persian king nearly 150 years ago. Tourists come to marvel at this arch, quite unaware ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini greets the crowd at Tehran University after his return to Iran from exile in France during the Iranian Revolution. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images) Ayatollah ...

Nearly 50 years ago, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini flew into Tehran from exile in France and ignited an Islamic revolution that plunged Iran into tyranny. What followed was not justice or freedom, but ...