Tehran, Iran – Several of Iran’s former leaders, including some who are currently imprisoned or under house arrest, have released damning statements over the killing of thousands during nationwide ...

TEL AVIV—On Jan. 7, Parviz Afshari received the last messages his son, Sam, would ever send him: “I’m planning to join the protest tomorrow / But don’t tell Mom.” Protesters rallied in Tehran on Jan.

On a tree-lined street in north London, known as "Billionaire's Row," a clutch of mostly empty mansions sit behind tall hedges and blacked-out gates. As school children wander by, private guards in ...

Iran's Interim Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar summoned Tsafrir to make a dramatic request: assassinate Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at his exile residence near Paris. Between the 1950s and the 1979 ...

Eric Lob is affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Pahlavi emerged during the recent upheaval as a prominent political dissident in exile who encouraged and inspired Iranians ...

Iran has a grim history of crushing dissent, but the latest crackdown dwarfs anything seen during the repressive Islamic theocracy’s 47 years in power, evidence trickling out of Iran suggests. Human ...

Research by Stanford scholars shows that access to public preschool improves diagnosis rates and support for developmental and behavioral conditions in low-income children. A new Stanford study points ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — He has been in exile for nearly 50 years. His father, Iran’s shah, was so widely hated that millions took to the streets in 1979, forcing him from power.

The Belgian Court of Appeal’s findings could not be clearer. The judges concluded that the terrorists knew exactly what they were doing; the bomb was professionally built and required deliberate ...

Publicity material for Googoosh: A Sinful Voice, a new memoir by the Iranian singer in exile, calls her a predecessor to Beyoncé and Madonna—a comparison that might seem over-the-top to American ...