SAN DIEGO — As we see images of Iran, it looks like it's been ravaged by war. It's hard to fathom Iran used to be a country full of culture, freedom, the arts, and women who were allowed to wear their ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran on Saturday celebrated the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests and heightened tensions with the West. Thousands ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the first such meeting since the ...

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 ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the ...

Women holding up photographs of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on Sept. 24, 2022. Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images Shouts ...

Women holding up photographs of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on Sept. 24, 2022. Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images Pardis ...

Crowds in Iran have celebrated the anniversary of the country's 1979 revolution at state-organized gatherings, images broadcast on state television on Monday showed. In Tehran and the provinces, ...