Iran relations highlight differences between the countries’ views, but others have presented real opportunities for ...

The history of Iran, with its many twists and turns, is like watching the story of human civilization itself unfold over ...

Given the history of turbulent relations between Iran and western nations, was the current conflict between the United States and Iran inevitable?

On the Thursday, March 19, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: As the U.S.-Israel war Iran intensifies, it’s hard to imagine Iran was once an important U.S. ally. In this special episode, we lay out ...

While US and Israeli fire threatened some of Iran’s most cherished cultural relics, scores of Persian artefacts were safe and ...

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

Iran and Israel were not always enemies, but the relationship has been hostile for decades. The rivalry grew out of the 1979 ...

Iran and its proxies have been kidnapping and killing Americans since 1979. US embassies stormed, bombed. Service members, diplomats murdered.

Everyone is so concerned with how the war with Iran will end that few people have considered how it started. That consideration would reveal that the conflict has deep historical roots and that the ...

NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz outlines the history of U.S.-Iran relations from the 1953 coup through the 1979 revolution to the ...