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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 596

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Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 12, 2025, during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran. (IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S WEBSITE / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 8:11 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Dramatic saga of the temporary Israel-Iran alliance
ToI’s diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples — and why Israel was arming Iran after the Islamic revolution
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
A royalist tank moves into the courtyard of Tehran Radio a few minutes after pro-Shah troops occupied the area during the coup which ousted Mohammad Mosaddegh and his government on Aug. 19, 1953. (AP Photo, File)
August 25, 2023, 10:55 am
70 years later, a CIA-backed coup still roils Iran-US relations
The 1953 ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh to cement the rule of the Shah still haunts the country and its Islamist rulers
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
Iranian pro-government demonstrators hold posters of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during their rally condemning recent anti-government protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
October 10, 2022, 10:10 pm
Long before the revolution: Headcovers always took center stage in Iran’s politics
Women’s activism has persisted for over a century, as successive regimes in Tehran have told women what they can and cannot wear
By Eliz Sanasarian
Left: The book cover of 'Titan of Tehran.' Right: Habib Elghanian, a prominent leader of Iran's Jewish community, seen during his trial in Iran that led to his 1979 execution. (Collage by Grace Yagel/JTA)
January 6, 2022, 3:11 am
An Iranian Jewish leader was executed in 1979. His granddaughter tells his story
In ‘Titan of Tehran,’ Shahrzad Elghanayan writes about her grandfather, a philanthropist who gave his life rather than abandon his community during the Islamic Revolution
By Howard Lovy
Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah of Iran, poses for a picture during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC, on August 3, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
August 4, 2021, 4:48 am
Shah’s son urges West to drive ‘nail in coffin’ of Iran clerical state
Reza Pahlavi urges US, Europe to keep up pressure on ‘fragile regime’ in Tehran, particularly after election of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi as president
By Shaun Tandon and Francesco FONTEMAGGI
In this photo taken on September 26, 1980, the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini salutes his followers in the Iranian capital of Tehran. (Stig Nillson/AFP)
June 1, 2019, 9:34 pm
Khomeini’s legacy still looms over Iran, 30 years after his death
Decades later, austere and charismatic cleric who founded the Islamic Republic remains an icon and national hero for standing against the West
By Marc Jourdier
Ahmad Sheikhi, a 63-year-old former revolutionary, at a former prison run by the pre-revolution intelligence service, SAVAK, where he was once tortured, in Tehran, Iran, January 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 6, 2019, 10:49 am
Torture still scars Iranians 40 years after revolution
Tehran museum bears testament to torture program by shah’s intelligence agency; rights groups say country tortures and arbitrarily detains prisoners today
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
In this photo from October 9, 1978, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo, File)
February 1, 2019, 2:32 pm
Key dates since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution
From takeover of American embassy to Trump’s nuclear deal withdrawal, hostile ties with US have been a defining feature of the Islamic Republic
By AFP
Illustrative: Iranians burn a representation of an Israeli flag as they chant slogans during an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
May 12, 2018, 6:11 am
Iran and Israel: From allies to arch foes
After close cooperation during the rule of the shah, the 1979 Islamic Revolution changed everything and turned Tehran into an existential threat to the Jewish state
By AFP
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and a critic of the country's clerical leaders, pauses for a photo after an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, January 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
January 10, 2018, 12:40 am
Exiled Iranian royal sees chance to end the Islamic Republic
Reza Pahlavi, son of former Shah, believes country’s people are writing a new future for themselves, and perhaps for the former monarchy
By Bradley Klapper
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter, Gabriella, in 2016. (AFP)
November 16, 2017, 11:42 am
UK may pay $600m debt to Iran as it seeks to free jailed citizen
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is accused of plotting against Tehran; Officials in London and Tehran deny link between two issues
By ToI Staff
In this Feb. 28, 1953 file photo, an army officer rallies a crowd of supporters of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi in front of the home of then Iranian PM Mohammed Mossadegh as riots broke out in Tehran. (AP Photo, File)
June 29, 2017, 9:05 pm
US publishes full papers showing how CIA plotted 1953 Iran coup
Documents shed light on American motivations for supporting putsch, which included anti-communist stance, British oil interests
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative. Iranian protestors set US and Israeli flags afire during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on July 1, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
February 10, 2017, 9:09 am
Iran marks 1979 revolution with rallies, protests against Israel, US
Rouhani to address crowd in Tehran as commemorations take place across country, many in sub-zero weather
By AP
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini greets followers in Iran in an undated photograph. (Wikimedia/public domain)
June 11, 2016, 7:24 pm
Iran furious over report Khomeini engaged with US ahead of revolution
Documents obtained by BBC show cleric sold empty promises to Carter administration, which aided him in preventing Iran army from staging coup
By ToI Staff
Jackson Pollock's 'Mural on Indian Red Ground.' (Wikipedia/Fair use)
May 13, 2016, 1:45 am
Shah of Iran’s art collection to go on show in Berlin
Event marks first time since 1979 the prestigious collection, including Picasso, Warhol, Pollock, is exhibited outside Tehran
By AFP
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