What led to the overthrow of the Shah and are there parallels between then and now?

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For Googoosh, Iran’s most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or another. It began as a child, performing with her acrobat father who ...

To make a deal with this regime is to betray all those people who died. So please, I beg you, do whatever you can to stop this deal,” said Pouria Hamidi.

I was in my mother’s womb when the Islamic Revolution of 1979 shattered my family’s homeland, forcing us into exile. Like so many Iranians, my country was stolen from me before I could even take my ...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz was a Women Peacemaker Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the University of San Diego (2023-2024). She received funding from this fellowship to conduct research on ...

The revolt and ensuing violence in Iran should not surprise anyone who truly values fundamental civil rights. There is a strong historical case that brutal dictatorships have a limited shelf life, ...

Iran is once again in a season of internal reflection. One that resists easy capture by salacious headlines or official declarations. It is a reckoning long felt in hushed conversations at bustling ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For Googoosh, Iran's most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or another. It began as a child, performing with her acrobat father who ...