Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah, is hosting a convention of activists in Munich Saturday to build support for democracy.

While global headlines fixate on Iran’s nuclear program or its regional power plays, another crisis rages just beneath the ...

To American intelligence, the shah of Iran looked to be an unshakable monarch. How did they get it so wrong?

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, arrives at the White House with Empress Farah Diba in Washington on July 24, 1973. In the 1970s, millions of Iranians rose up to depose him.© AP ...

LONDON − The exiled son of Iran's last shah − Persian for "king" − before he fled the 1979 Islamic Revolution called for Iran's theocratic regime and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to "step ...

He would become the last Shah of Iran. The U.S. government in 2013 officially acknowledged the U.S.’s role in the coup when it released declassified CIA documents on the operation.

The shah recognized the dual use for nuclear power, and in June 1974 even told an American journalist that “Iran would have nuclear weapons without a doubt sooner than you think,” a remark he ...

Since Iran first embarked on an ambitious civilian nuclear program in 1974 under the shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s leaders have viewed it as a proud symbol of the country’s leadership in ...

Carter and his administration let the Shah of Iran fall, to be replaced by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the rest was history. It’s a history that has America at war with Iran today in ...