Why did Trump bomb iran? Why is the U.S. helping Israel? The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations offers some context.

While not colonised by European empires, Iran's oil reserves meant it became a key focus for British and Western imperial ...

Known by its Persian name, the Mujahideen-e Khalq Organisation (MEK or MKO), the group fell out with the other factions alongside which it deposed the Iranian Shah and replaced the Imperial State ...

This chimes with more recent history, too: there was a lion and sun figure at the centre of the flag of the Imperial State of Iran, which was overthrown and replaced by the Islamic Republic of ...

The 1940s map presents the Middle East from an Iranian perspective. Iran is highlighted in yellow, standing out from the uniform green of the surrounding countries. In the margins appears a Persian ...

President Donald Trump has, metaphorically speaking, wiped out the Democrats as he symbolically did the nuclear bomb-bent ...

Not that the attack on Iran is about nuclear weaponry anyway, but rather Israel seeking the destruction of that state.

Reaffirming the Congress party's consistent stance on the Gaza crisis, Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia ...

Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. ... These imperial hopes were crushed when rebels hostile to Iran toppled Assad in ... Iranian state news reported.

The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations offers some context. ... The United States and United Kingdom back a coup in what is then called the Imperial State of Iran.