AP |AMIR VAHDAT and MOHAMMAD NASIRI: The shah of Irans last refuge before fleeing his country in 1979 was a palatial estate nestled against the Alborz Mountains a place no Iranian ever dreamed of visiting. Today, it costs them around $1. The Niavaran Palace, a complex of mansions on a 27-acre (11-hectare) plot, now welcomes the public to marvel ...

LobeLog | Shireen Hunter: In his speech describing Americas new approach towards Iran, Donald Trump accused it of responsibility for just about all of the ills of the Middle East and South West Asia. He went as far as accusing Iran of having supported the Taliban and al-Qaeda, sworn enemies of the Shias and Iran. More seriously, the president refused ...

Tasnim An American academic said Washingtons hopes for establishing total dominance over the Middle East were dashed after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, stressing that Iran at the time was only an outpost of US imperialism under the deposed Shah's (king) regime. Iran has remained in the crosshairs of US imperialism for one ...

Uncovering the extent and details of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the U.S. wars against selected Arab and non-Arab states is somewhat complicated, and the reason is shortage of reliable information. Even if such information were available, we may have to sieve through a huge amount of data searching for patterns, relations, and critical values. For ...

Tehran, Dec 26, IRNA -- The completion of the enormous oral history project on the second Pahlavi era (1941-1979) was officially announced in a ceremony last week at Irans National Library and Archives Organization in Tehran, during a confab on oral history. Taking 14 years to capture, the oral history collection contains 57 interviews with political ...

Ben Kingsley has been signed on to play the Shah of Iran in a new feature film that will shed light on the backstory that led to the Islamic Revolution and hostage crisis at the US embassy in 1979. Gateway Films, a UK-based production house, and Mena CineFinance, which operates out of Los Angeles and the UAE, will be working with the actor to make ...

The Iranian government is taking a Ministry of Defence-owned company to the High Court to end a 400m row over British-made Chieftain tanks that has dragged on for 35 years, The Independent reported on Sunday. In 2010 an international trade court ordered Britain to pay Iran $650 million for failing to deliver some 1,300 tanks after Shah Mohammad Reza ...

PARIS (AP) -- The son of Iran's toppled shah has a new job as spokesman for a nascent movement that is challenging the clerical regime to hold free and fair elections - or risk a civil disobedience campaign. Reza Pahlavi said Thursday that his Paris-based collective, the Iranian National Council, brings together tens of thousands of pro-democracy ...