From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country. The government was replaced with an Islamic republic, which ...

Before revolution toppled the Iranian monarchy in 1979, Iran and Israel exchanged tourists and trade instead of missiles and drones. 1 Iranian diplomat Reza Saffinia salutes Israeli soldiers as he ...

In a Zoom interview with Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, Iranian pop icon Googoosh recounts her celebrated career in pre-revolution Iran, the state-imposed silence that followed the 1979 ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979, which toppled Iran's Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was one of the most significant political events of the past 50 years, said Charlie Gammell in the Financial Times. It ...