The ship, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker named Talara, is not the first ship the IRGC has hijacked, but it had stepped back from such threats recently.

When Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, was overthrown during the 1979 Iranian Revolution — also known as the Islamic Revolution — it marked the end of mo

Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) emphasized that the IRGC’s defense capabilities remain advanced and will continue to grow.

A desert-like patch of sand and scrawny trees in the largest cemetery in Iran’s capital has been the final resting place for decades for some of the thousands killed in the mass executions that followed Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Now, Lot 41 at ...

Iranian authorities arrested two men after a video went viral showing them dressed in military uniforms while carrying the flag used during the rule of the shah prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, local media reported on Thursday.

For decades, the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran has symbolized the righteousness of the Islamic Republic of Iran's revolutionary defiance and the legitimacy of “resistance” as state ideology.

The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone. On a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation Army,” by the White Stripes. Huddled around a live band, some shake their hair while others rhythmically swing.

Two things in the past prevented women from driving motorbikes or scooters. First of all, police regulations in Iran’s Farsi language specifically refer to only “mardan,” or “men,” being able to obtain motorcycle licences. It’s very gender-specific wording in Farsi, a broadly gender-neutral language grammatically.

With no negotiations, no oversight and no clarity about Iran’s stock of nuclear material, many in the region fear another war with Israel is inevitable.