Playing up the threat of the communist incursions, the Shah of Iran gained more and more support—financial and political—from the United States.

What really happened in Iran back in the day, and what did the United States have to do with it?

Pamela Karimi’s new book examines how Iran’s “Women, Art, Freedom” protest movement has influenced the country’s artists and their work.

A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.

Spiritism appealed to Iranian intellectuals who sought to reconcile their commitment to science with their pursuit of moral reform.

President Trump's decision to order the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani has backfired in spectacular fashion. Why?

Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a political and literary writer in pre-revolutionary Iran, had ideas about how his country could modernize in its own, non-Western way.

Millions of people now live atop fault lines because long ago small communities gathered at fresh water sources.