Iran News News Iran » History: US will impose 'toughest sanctions in history' on Iran, Bessent says
By Kanishka Singh and Jana Choukeir WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. will impose "the toughest sanctions in history" on Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday, a focus on ...
News Iran » History: Crypto Braces ‘History’s Toughest US Sanctions’ on Iran in Matter of Hours — How Could XRP and Bitcoin Be Impacted?
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will unveil sweeping new Iran sanctions at a 2 p.m. ET press conference. XRP has no known direct exposure to Iran’s ...
News Iran » History: Windows to the world
A Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a historian whose research on Iran invites students to discover new perspectives through the study of the past A renowned scholar of early modern Iran and the ...
News Iran » History: What Iranian dissidents can learn about regime change from the mistakes of 1979
Iran's Islamic revolution was not just an Islamic revolution. A diverse set of factions, from Marxist-Leninists to religious nationalists, participated in overthrowing the monarchy. But their hopes ...
News Iran » History: Why America Can’t Strangle Iran
For Iran and the United States, August 24 was Groundhog Day. “We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” declared U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...
News Iran » History: An American’s Unrequited Love for Iran
Among close followers of Iran, the late historian Richard Nelson Frye is a household name. Beyond that world, however, he is little known. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, Frye’s ...
News Iran » History: Iran prepares to bury slain supreme leader with week of mass mourning
Funeral marks major moment in modern Iranian history Iran plans funeral events in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Iraq Hotels offer discounts, buses and trains diverted for mourners DUBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - ...
News Iran » History: Iran sends a defiant message to Trump with colossal funeral for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iranian officials have provided ambitious estimates of attendance figures, ranging from 4 million to 15 million mourners – which could make it the largest funeral in modern history – and boasted that ...
News Iran » History: What a Journey Through Wartime Iran Revealed
From the capital, Tehran, to the holy city of Mashhad, the Iran I saw was a nation of many layers: defiant but also weary, despairing but hopeful. A portrait of a defiant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looms ...
News Iran » History: One mistake Trump hasn’t made on Iran
Unless Donald Trump finds a way out of his box on Iran, history may come to regard his choice to wage war as a presidency-defining error. But he has so far avoided ...