How come Premier Mohammed Mossadeq keels over so often? As every newspaper reader knows, he is prone to fainting fits, weeping or taking to his bed. What ails the man? When he arrived in Manhattan to ...

Imagine if Aug. 19, 1953, had come and gone, uneventfully. Imagine if Operation Ajax, coordinated by the British MI6 and the American CIA, which toppled the flourishing democracy in Iran of Mohammed ...

This adaptation of an article originally published in THE AMERICAN PROSPECT was edited in September 2004 specifically for PBS.org. Since then, in June 2005, Iran held presidential elections, electing ...

New York Times correspondent and author Stephen Kinzer highlighted a coup against led by U.S. and British forces in 1953 Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadeq as the root of anti-American sentiment and ...

Roham Alvandi and Mark Gasiorowski describe in detail how the U.S. overthrew Iran’s prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq in 1953, and they push back against the false revisionism being pushed by Iran ...

Tall tales by “a scion of the American establishment — former CIA agent and presidential grandson Kermit Roosevelt — and reams of studies by left-wing professors have sustained the myth” that the ...

The room on the second floor of Teheran’s Majlis (Parliament) building was as bare as a hermit’s cell. It was furnished with a sagging cot, a few dingy chairs, a foot locker, and a small table on ...

While the U.S. and Iran have a long and troubled history with one another, I find one particular omission of that history particularly troubling. Virtually every time a journalist (including NPR and ...

Barack Obama undertook two supremely ideological foreign policy moves. In both cases he seemed largely motivated by myths about American "crimes" in the past, and for that reason failed or refused to ...

Niall Ferguson makes sense until he starts looking for rational leadership in Iran. He states that you need to go back to 1979 to find a realistic leader in Iran, implying that Shah Mohammed Reza ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, is greeted by large crowds after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Khomeini was welcomed by many Iranians as an antidote to the ...