In 2018, Washington reimposed tough economic sanctions on Iran that make it more difficult for other countries to do business with Tehran and called on the community to force Islamic Republic to concede to dozen political and military demands... ..…
Trump and two of his top national security officials had been suggesting for two years that the Islamic republic was still in pursuit of a nuclear weapon and posed a mortal threat to its neighbors and the West. . ... The Trump administration has made ever more bellicose noises about..…
The rallies celebrated Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's triumph in toppling Iran's monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, along with Iran's 2,500-year-old monarchy, on Feb. 11, 1979. Before the year's end, Khomeini would engineer the formation of the Islamic Republic—an oppressive,..…
But his government’s promises were not realized due to their overriding belief that change could only take place if permitted by the “Supreme Religious Leader” and could not cross the “red lines” of the Islamic Republic. ... Has the foreign policy of the Islamic..…
Within time, Shi'ite fundamentalist groups around Ayatollah Khomeini that controlled the government of Islamic Republic, however, moved against the secular left revolutionary forces, particularly Tudeh Party of Iran. ..…
By June 1979, the secular, pro-American monarchy had been replaced with the Islamic Republic. . . . While several reformist and moderate politicians have been elected to govern Iran over the last four decades, in recent years, tough hard-line political and religious conservatives..…
On February 11, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei and religious hardliners established Islamic Republic Iran after the fall of Shah. ... The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took in 1989 following the death of the man considered the father of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah..…
Iranians Show Strong Support for Islamic Republic . . Annual February 11th Rallies Start in Iran . . ..…