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Iran flirted with democracy during the early part of the 20th century, but it didn’t quite stick.That two-year experiment influenced Democratic movements…
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Suzette Grillot and Rebecca Cruise discuss the terrorist attack in Istanbul, and some of the security issues these types of attacks continue.Later, a…
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Editor's Note: This interview was originally broadcast January 14, 2014Ambassador John Limbert and 51 diplomatic and military colleagues were taken…
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Financial advisor Hamid Biglari left Iran for the United States in 1977 – two years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution – when his native country produced…
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Four years ago, Cyrus Copeland sat in the living room with his mother when she asked him to fetch his father’s will from the library to answer a question…
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Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh studies and teaches Iranian history at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He's just written a book about the country’s…
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Russia and the West are sparring over oil and jockeying for position to gain an upper hand in the Middle East. That sounds like it could’ve come straight…
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Earlier this week Turkey attacked Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria after a suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed 10 tourists. Turkish Prime…
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Letter calling for the release of Jason Rezaian was sent January 8, 2016.
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Since the January 2 assassination of popular Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, Iranians have continued to rally against Saudi Arabia, leading to a…