Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defined his rule and Iran’s place in the world through his hostility to Israel and the US. Last ...

Iran-watchers believe that there is an almost unprecedented window of opportunity following the series of critical setbacks that have impacted on the mullahs’ regime in the past year, with the virtual ...

Minutes has been covering the geopolitical situation in Iranian for almost five decades. Here are some of the reports we've broadcast.

This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region ...

In the eyes of the Iranian public (and especially to those who engineered the 1979 revolution that finally toppled the Shah from the throne), SAVAK was viewed as inseparable from Western ...

Three Iranian exiles have filed a lawsuit against Parviz Sabeti, ... SAVAK was established in 1957 and rights groups have long accused it of torturing dissidents who opposed the rule of the shah.

Sabeti was identified as second-in-command of Iran’s secret police, or SAVAK, which existed prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 that saw the current regime take over and form a totalitarian ...

Sabeti was identified as second-in-command of Iran’s secret police, or SAVAK, which existed prior to the Islamic Revolution that saw the current regime take over and form a totalitarian government.

The Iran-Israel attacks also marked the latest military escalation in the West Asia region since the latter's strikes on Gaza - the result of Hamas' October 7 terror attacks - began in 2023 and ...

Iranian-Americans held several rallies in the United States on February 12, ... "SAVAK created fear, it arrested, jailed, and tortured all those opposing [the shah], ...