A visual timeline of Iran’s history from 600 BCE to 2020, presented year-by-year. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:11 Ancient era 0:31 Achaemenid era 1:07 Greek Occupation 1:20 Parthian era 2:32 Sasanian era ...

For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. The region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear-armed and militarily superior Israel, and ...

Among close followers of Iran, the late historian Richard Nelson Frye is a household name. Beyond that world, however, he is little known. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, Frye’s ...

For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Arthur I. Cyr is the author of “After the Cold War – American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia.” Chaos characterizes the Middle East, and that has been true for most of the very long ...

Iran's Islamic revolution was not just an Islamic revolution. A diverse set of factions, from Marxist-Leninists to religious nationalists, participated in overthrowing the monarchy. But their hopes ...

A man and a woman flash the victory sign as they sit on their motorbike in front of a banner with graphic depicting the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kissing head of the late ...