Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group joins The Excerpt to break down the complicated history between the United States ...

Decades before the U.S.- Israel war in Iran began, Iran was considered one of the United States' most important allies in the ...

In an effort to justify his war on Iran, President Donald Trump turned to history. He begins with 1979, the year the Islamic ...

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has been condemned in the West as a repressive theocracy. But the history of this vast nation of more than 90 million people is long and complicated. In ...

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies have committed a range of attacks against Americans.

Between 1953 and 1977, the U.S. and Iran had a mostly cordial relationship. During the 1960s, the U.S. assisted Iran in creating its nuclear program, providing a nuclear reactor and significant ...

The US and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been at each other’s throats for nearly half a century ...

The regime has never stopped seeking a weapon, and Obama’s deal didn’t end its pursuit.

Everyone is so concerned with how the war with Iran will end that few people have considered how it started. That ...

History doesn’t always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others’. Example: ...