In an effort to justify his war on Iran, President Donald Trump turned to history. He begins with 1979, the year the Islamic ...

President Trump started a war with no clear end in sight. If his predecessors' experiences are an indication, conflicts don't ...

Decades before the U.S.- Israel war in Iran began, Iran was considered one of the United States' most important allies in the ...

Long before the open warfare of recent months, the US and Iran have been locked into decades of low-level conflict. Since the ...

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies have committed a range of attacks against Americans.

As President Donald Trump looks at ordering US Navy ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, for naval analysts and historians, there’s a distinct feeling of “been there, done that.” ...

Between 1953 and 1977, the U.S. and Iran had a mostly cordial relationship. During the 1960s, the U.S. assisted Iran in creating its nuclear program, providing a nuclear reactor and significant ...

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has been condemned in the West as a repressive theocracy. But the history of this vast nation of more than 90 million people is long and complicated. In ...

Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group joins The Excerpt to break down the complicated history between the United States ...

The regime has never stopped seeking a weapon, and Obama’s deal didn’t end its pursuit.

Everyone is so concerned with how the war with Iran will end that few people have considered how it started. That ...