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AP WAS THERE: A 1953 CIA-led coup in Iran topples prime minister, cements shah's power
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoEDITOR'S NOTE — In August 1953, a CIA-backed coup toppled Iran's prime minister, cementing the rule...
CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits 'Argo' rescue
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhile revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting...
Dissident Iranian cleric, relative of top leader, dies at 96
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAli Tehrani, a dissident cleric and brother-in-law of Iran’s supreme leader, has died at age 96, local media reported. Tehrani had been a critic of Iran’s authoritarian ruler, Shah Mohammad ...
Iran Has a Long History of Political Activism and Protest. Here’s What To Know
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in...
28 photos show what Iran looked like before the 1979 revolution turned the nation into an Islamic...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe Shah of Iran with his third wife, Empress Farah Diba, and their son Crown Prince Reza.Getty...
Hidden for decades, masterpieces of Western art go on display — in Tehran
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSome rarely seen 19th and 20th century American and European minimalist and conceptual masterpieces...
Long, fraught timeline of tensions over Iran nuclear program
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIran has started removing 27 surveillance cameras installed by U.N. inspectors at nuclear sites...
‘We all have dreams’: Iran’s fractured opposition begins to unify in support of protest movement
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIran’s long fragmented and dispersed opposition has begun unifying ranks against Tehran’s clerical...
The Taliban threatens to ‘conquer Iran’ in a dispute over shared river
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn this photo taken on February 18, 2022 a Taliban fighter stands guard at the entrance gate of...
‘From ‘Death to America’ to ‘Axis of Evil’: The historical context around heated winner-takes-all...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRarely is an international sporting contest simply about what happens in the match. If teams play...