Historian and Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer says the 1979 Iran hostage crisis reverberates in how the U.S. deals with the country today. Host Robin Young speaks to Zelizer about his ...

It sure feels like 1979 again. Iran is fighting the West. The price of gas has been rising for weeks. Moscow is aiming to take advantage of a distracted White House. The party in control of Washington ...

In seven decades of boldness and risk-taking, my mother’s single greatest regret is marching for the 1979 revolution in Iran. She was a 23-year-old medical student, newly married and pregnant for the ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The similarities between now and events preceding the shah’s exile are striking. The radical clerics benefited then, but who would prevail this time? A critical moment looms for Iran, and so for the ...

The recent unrest in Iran, with the third mass protests in the past six years, has left the theocratic regime wounded but not out. Iran is no stranger to such unrest. In 1979, similar circumstances ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Iran marked its 47th revolution anniversary Wednesday showing a split reality: State TV broadcast massive ...

One-hit wonders were all the rage in 1979, especially in genres like new wave and disco. If you were a teen that year, I bet you remember these solitary hits all too well. Though, I must admit, one of ...

Protesters on the streets of Tehran in 1979. The scenes that have unfolded in Iran in recent weeks are incredible yet unnervingly familiar © Alain Mingam/Gamma-Rapho ...

Iran is living through one of the most dangerous moments in its post-revolutionary history. Nationwide protests have become sustained rather than episodic. As a new wave of unrest has spread across ...

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The protests in Iran are grabbing headlines, with the government and the opposition accusing each other of escalating violence. The government also says that foreign interference is behind the ...