Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani found himself living the old cliche about revolutions devouring their own children, Tuesday, when a court in Tehran sentenced

Iran is the only country in the Middle East to have no diplomatic ties with Egypt. Nevertheless, the protests rocking the region’s most populous nation

However, the family put the suicide in national terms in a message on Reza Pahlavi’s website, noting that Alireza was “deeply disturbed by all the

To an outside world accustomed to viewing Iranian politics as a conclave of like-minded mullahs, the current turmoil within Iran’s political and religious establishment defies