Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, faces new allegations from U.S.-based scholar Mehrzad Boroujerdi, ...

GREENWICH — As Americans react to the U.S. air strikes on Iran this weekend, there's renewed attention on Iran's rulers, past and present. The royal family of Iran has roots in southern Connecticut, ...

March 6 -- Farah Pahlavi is a 65-year-old woman living a quiet life in Potomac, Md., but 25 years ago she was an empress living at the center of a cultural and political upheaval that continues to ...

For the past hundred years, stars from Fred Astaire to Drake — and the Shah of Iran — have flaunted the British-made car as the ultimate status symbol.

Figures like Kharrazi are trying to write the latest chapter of the Islamic Republic’s story using an old script. The 12 days ...

In 1980 I was invited along with a cohort of historians to attend a conference at Harvard on “Knowing Your Enemies”. We soon discovered that it was funded by the CIA, who wanted to see if they could ...

The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.

"A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary ...