A hand-colored volume of 13th-century Persian poetry, a rare photographic record of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and a family photo album from the Qajar dynasty (1789–1925) form a deeply personal and ...
ABC News takes a look back 36 years to the Iranian Revolution. — -- On Feb. 11 each year, Iranians take to the streets in celebration of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The ...
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Before the Veil: How Iranian Women Once Lived with Freedom—and What the Revolution Took Away
Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini greets the crowd at Tehran University after his return to Iran from exile in France during the Iranian Revolution. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images) Ayatollah ...
The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the U.S. depended on as a pillar of regional security, the shah, gave way to a ...
Strange to think, but there was a time when the United States’ most steadfast ally in the Middle East was Iran. In 1953, the C.I.A. had backed a coup that ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, the popular Prime ...
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