Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Vintage cars show racy past of Iran’s toppled royalty

Before they were ousted by the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's royal family enjoyed a lavish lifestyle with a taste for fast cars quite unlike any ever built.

Now, after half a century hidden away, the royal racers are back on show, with the Iran Historical Car Museum drawing in thousands since it opened to the public in recent weeks.

I am unifying voice of Iran: Reza Pahlavi

Iran needs a unifying voice in opposition and “I am that voice,” said Reza Pahlavi, last heir to the overthrown Pahlavi Dynasty, which opposes the Islamic Republic of Iran from exile. Pahlavi has also expressed support for a parliamentary democracy in Iran amid demonstrations that have spread across the country creating political turmoil.

64 years later CIA finally releases details of Iranian coup

Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.

Can Gülen and Khomeini be compared?

Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? said, ?Fethullah Gülen was planning to stage a return like Khomeini.?

If one year ago, anybody from the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) had said, ?Fethullah Gülen is planning to stage a return like Khomeini,? then Bekir Bozda? would have snapped at him, ?Come on now, you secular paranoiac.?

Dacian artefacts and a Chrysler gifted to Ceausescu, featured in Artmark's Christmas Auction

Three golden artefacts from the 2nd-3rd centuries AD and the Chrysler limousine that was offered as a gift to Nicolae Ceausescu in 1974 by the Shah of Iran are the stars of Artmark's Christmas Auction that is to take place on December 9 at the Hilton Hotel in Bucharest.

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