From the 1979 revolution to today’s protests, Western predictions of Iran’s collapse have repeatedly misunderstood the ...

Failure to foresee shah’s fall in 1979 was diplomatic disaster, but experts see little indication of mass defections now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ayatollah Khomeini during his exile to Neauphle-le-Château, Paris, in 1978 - Sergio Gaudenti/Getty In 1980 I was invited along ...

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come” —Victor Hugo.Iran’s streets rage with protests in a classic demonstration of the often-stated but hardly-heeded saying that there is ...

On November 6, 1978, while riots raged throughout Tehran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, addressed the nation in a rhetoric of conciliation. “I have heard the voice of your revolution,” he ...

State television has itself recalled violence that led to ouster of shah, indicating regime's concern over current uprising ...