Anderson sheds new light on the combined failure of both Iranian and American elites to preempt the Iranian Revolution.

Anderson portrays the shah as a complex, Shakespearean figure – arrogant but weak, ambitious for his country yet blind to the ...

These gardens also played a religious role, offering a glimpse of what eternity might look like in the afterlife.

An Anti-American crowd demonstrates outside of the U.S. Embassy, November 21, 1979. The followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini ...

From "No Kings" rallies to Herodotus' Persian debates, lessons from history highlight the need for accountable leadership and ...

Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings at the Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, through April 17, 2011. Admission is free. Call 202-633-4880 or visit asia.si.edu.

Emissaries from the governments headed by Calvin Coolidge, George V, Gaston Doumergue, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg and many another, sought last week the capital of Persia, Teheran, a city ...

An inscription bearing the name of a Persian king is "not authentic," the Israel Antiquities Authority said. In a demonstration, an expert in ancient inscriptions had etched the words into the ...

This effort to tap into Iran’s millennia-old civilization was not a one-off. A billboard newly installed in Tehran praises an ancient Persian king, while another in the capital depicts the ...

He refers to Trump in sermons and at rallies as a modern version of the 6th Century BCE Persian king Cyrus. "Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, whom I've anointed," says Wallnau in a video posted online.