In a matter of days, nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy exploded into a crackdown and bloodshed that blew past reported casualty figures of decades of past demonstrations in the country.

"The conditions in Iran today are not comparable to those that precipitated the downfall of the Shah and the triumph of the revolution of 1979," writes Narges Bajoghli ...

The eyes of the world are currently on Iran, where tens of thousands of people are demanding an end to the mullah regime.

It appears that the Revolutionary Guards are responsible for the large number of demonstrators—whether hundreds or ...

Angry, nightly protests on the streets of Tehran, the ruler’s pictures trampled underfoot and set ablaze; statues toppled — and then the chaos, fear and death unleashed by gunshots.

Iran’s clerics face a familiar uprising driven by economic collapse, but repression, not reform, now defines the regime’s response. Originally published at The Boston Globe ...

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the U.S.

The number of dead, as reported by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, dwarfs that in any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades and recalls the chaos surrounding the ...

This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran paving over Lot 41, where some of those executed in the chaos after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution were buried, at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery ...

The outlet, citing "several people familiar with the information," noted that the intelligence reports also indicated that ...