However, like with most revolutions, things were not so easy for Iran after the dust had settled. The new theocratic government faced tough sanctions that persist to this day, crippling the economy of a country that has some of the biggest oil reserves in the world. ..…

With some, bits and pieces of the stories have popped up here and there, but rarely brought together to form a cohesive and enlightening whole; the fragments usually appear long after the fact, quietly buried within other stories, just as quietly forgotten, bursting into the foreground only when extraordinary..…

Ambassador to United Nations Andrew Young told Carter administration colleagues as Islamic Revolution unfolded Iran. ... Dismissing the possibility of entity rising from the ashes of the government, Young suggested, Iran... ..…

Pictured The execution of Kurdish men and others by forces of Iran's Islamist, in 1979 ... ..…