Avoiding Bloodshed With Iran In the Persian Gulf During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, merchant ships became regular…
Elizabeth Jones became the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan in 1995. On July 3, 1988 an Iran Air flight was making…
Next to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and…
With forged passport in hand, Kathleen Stafford donned fake eyeglasses and pulled her long hair back. If this plan worked,…
Back when the United States had diplomatic missions in Iran, a young Foreign Service Officer travelled with members of the…
Iraqi Kurds are scheduled to hold a referendum on independence in September, 2017. The Kurdistan region of about five million…
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, departed Tehran on January 16, 1979 to seek medical treatment and to escape…
In the Iran-Contra Affair, Colonel Oliver North and others within the National Security Council and CIA used back channels and…
The years leading up to the autumn of 1979 in Iran proved to be turbulent, resulting in a radical transformation…
Mohammad Mossadegh became Prime Minister of Iran in 1951 and was hugely popular for taking a stand against the Anglo-Iranian Oil…