“The future of Iran lies not in the shadow of old thrones or turbaned tyrants. It lies in the hands of the Iranian people — ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East ...

Critics argue Reza Pahlavi’s monarchical ambitions and ties to Israel undermine his claims of advocating for democracy.

On 16 January 1979, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled to sanctuary in Anwar Sadat’s Egypt. Less than four weeks ...

Minutes has been covering the geopolitical situation in Iranian for almost five decades. Here are some of the reports we've ...

In the eyes of the Iranian public (and especially to those who engineered the 1979 revolution that finally toppled the Shah from the throne), SAVAK was viewed as inseparable from Western ...

The path forward is neither naive appeasement nor reckless regime change. It is strategic democratic pressure combined with ...

Sabeti was identified as second-in-command of Iran’s secret police, or SAVAK, which existed prior to the Islamic Revolution ...

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s potential removal would lead to a power vacuum, chaos, and a regional wildfire, leading to a ...

Three Iranian exiles have filed a lawsuit against Parviz Sabeti, ... SAVAK was established in 1957 and rights groups have long accused it of torturing dissidents who opposed the rule of the shah.

Sabeti was identified as second-in-command of Iran’s secret police, or SAVAK, which existed prior to the Islamic Revolution that saw the current regime take over and form a totalitarian government.