1978 – Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s authoritarian rule sparks demonstrations and riots. January 16, 1979 – The Shah flees Iran and goes to Egypt. February 1, 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns ...

Barry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited ...

Today, arrests on vague national-security charges and prisoner-swap negotiations seems to have become an important pillar of Iran’s diplomacy.

The Iran Hostage Crisis began just months after the Shah of Iran fled during the Islamic Revolution. When the U.S. allowed him entry for medical treatment in October 1979, it sparked outrage. The ...

When the U.S. military struck Iran's nuclear facilities in June, it opened a new salvo in the decades-long strained relationship between the two countries, with Iran detaining more Americans. "At ...

Rodney “Rocky” Sickmann is devoutly religious. So religious in fact that before he left home for the challenges of Marine Corps bootcamp, his mother gave him a simple message: “Make sure you pray, ...

For 444 days in 1979–1981, Americans watched, with a mix of frustration and helplessness, the unfolding of the Iran hostage crisis and the withering of the Carter presidency. While Farber, a professor ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians on Tuesday celebrated the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — the first such commemoration since the U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities during a ...

Elis Presley returned to The Jungle Room in Nashville 49 years ago and recording what would become some of his final recordings. After escaping prison in 1970, Margo Freshwater remained on the run for ...

Inside the audacious plan to convert a C-130 Hercules into a rocket-assisted Super STOL aircraft capable of landing in a confined urban space for a daring hostage rescue in Iran. Faced with an ever ...