Historian John Ghazvinian talks about the decades-long conflict between the US and Iran and current events.

Iranian-American expert believes that the era of Tehran's influence in the region has ended. Head of the Iranian Studies department at Stanford University in California, his biography of the last ...

Why did Trump bomb iran? Why is the U.S. helping Israel? The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations ...

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

After the 12-day war in June, the issue of who will succeed Iran's longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ...

Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran is highly fragmented and doesn’t have a long tradition of democracy or a unified opposition movement. So what happens if ...

While President Trump's action has been framed as deterrent, history has shown it could have the opposite effect.

The Pentagon detailed Operation Midnight Hammer, the "largest B-2 strike in U.S. history," targeting three Iranian nuclear ...

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The scheme was revealed to law enforcement by an accused Iranian government asset who spent time in American prisons for robbery and who is alleged to maintain a network of criminal associates ...