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Timeline: The Iranian revolution and the rise of the Islamic Republic
Iran’s 1979 revolution overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a Western-allied secular monarch, and paved the way to the formation of an Islamic ... Features -
Leaked files reveal Iran’s post-revolution crackdown on journalists
The Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009, ... Middle East -
US highlights ‘broken promises’ on 40-year anniversary of Iran revolution
The United States marked the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution by highlighting what it says are the “broken promises” of ... Middle East -
Iran marks 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution
Iran is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and ... Middle East -
Family members of Iran’s leaders criticize its regime
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s daughter, Ruhollah Khomeini’s grandson, and many more prominent family members of Iranian leaders have ... Reports -
Iran’s schizophrenia heats up the debate
As the leadership in Tehran prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of the Khomeinist revolution, a growing number of Iranians are wondering whether the ... Middle East -
Khomeini grandson warns: No guarantees Iranian regime will survive
Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian regime, stressed that the satisfaction of the people is the foundation ... Middle East -
Hosni Mubarak, the history-maker and its witness
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s testimony before the court in the matter of prison breaks which the Muslim Brotherhood is accused of ... Middle East -
Iran executes businessman for economic crimes - state TV
Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following ... World News -
Photos of Khomeini, Khamenei inside an Iraqi official’s office spark controversy
A picture of Baghdad council member , Ali Jaafar al-Alaq, has sparked a debate over the past couple of days between Iraqis on Twitter, even though it ... Middle East -
ANALYSIS: Why is sanctioning Iran’s banking sector a top priority?
On November 5 of this year, the United States re-imposed sanctions against Iran. This involved many moving parts within the United States’ ... Economy -
Who killed the Revolutionary Guards in Ahwaz?
Who murdered and injured dozens at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s military parade a few days ago in the Ahwaz region in Iran: The Arab region ... Middle East -
Iran’s Khomeini: The will of the dead brings death to the living
Khomeini’s will is one of the Iranian regime’s biggest problems as its commitment to it has cost the Iranian people a lot of bloodshed and ... Middle East -
Iran’s Faezeh Rafsanjani speaks
After forty years, prominent Iranian politician Faezeh, the daughter of the Iranian pragmatic symbol, some prefer to call him the reformist, Hashemi ... Middle East -
Juhayman, Khomeini and Afghanistan
It’s been four decades – as we mark Islamic New Year, 1440 Hijri – since three incidents that were decisive phases and the ... Middle East -
Iraq’s two resolves
With the nearing of a formation of an Iraqi government, and after the largest bloc in the parliament has already been formed, the options become ... Middle East -
Iranian currency hits record low at 128,000 rials to the dollar
The Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the ... Economy -
Why Sayed Qutb inspired Iran’s Khomeini and Khamenei
In August 29, 1966, Sayed Qutb, the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, was hanged to death, after he was convicted of plotting the ... Features -
Saudi Arabia’s foreign files: No to toppling Iran’s Islamism
In the last decade of the shah’s rule in Iran, the Gulf's unrest had reached its end. When protests heightened in most cities, happiness was ... Middle East -
What Trump could do for Iran
“To resist or not to resist?” In Tehran’s political circles these days that is the question. The prospect of fresh sanctions to be ... Middle East -
The Shirazis: A narrative of eternal grief and sorrow
Al Arabiya’s last two articles on the Shirazis which addressed religious satellite television channels sparked many comments by these ... Middle East -
Will Europe obstruct the liberation of Yemen?
Does the world (or shall we say the Europeans’ vileness) need to wake up from its slumber to the incident of targeting a Saudi oil tanker in the ... Middle East -
Prince Khalid bin Salman calls on global community to firmly confront Iran
The West, and all countries, need to unite on a broad strategy in order to address the Iranian regime’s destabilizing behavior, Saudi ... Gulf -
Has the Khomeini Republic’s final hour come?
After tightening American sanctions on Iran, which reached Iranian oil that is the backbone of Iran’s finances, the Khomeini republic’s ... Middle East -
Iran and the oil war
We can attribute most of the region’s wars to the conflict over oil, whether directly or indirectly. Today, we are in the midst of a huge ... Middle East -
Tehran’s ties with al-Qaeda, extremist Salafist groups uncovered
New documents from Abbottabad, the Pakistani city where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding out, uncovered details of deep ties between ... Features -
Saudi Arabia, UAE forges multi-pronged partnership
The “great” meeting on Wednesday between Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the kingdom confirms what’s already been confirmed, renews the ... Middle East -
Why is it difficult for the Iranian regime to survive?
Following the success of the Khomeini-led revolution in 1979, many who were familiar with the situation in Iran did not expect the regime to last long ... Middle East -
Storm brewing in Iran over nuclear deal, terror ties and domestic unrest
Recent developments are indicating a tough road ahead for Iran in what is promising to be a tumultuous summer. U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his ... Features -
The early disputes between al-Shirazi family and Iran
We met with Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Shirazi at a nondescript house in a narrow alley near the street of ChaharMardan in Qom in 1994. I was part ... Middle East