Decades before the U.S.- Israel war in Iran began, Iran was considered one of the United States' most important allies in the Middle East.

Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group joins The Excerpt to break down the complicated history between the United States and Iran.

Everyone is so concerned with how the war with Iran will end that few people have considered how it started. That ...

(NewsNation) — Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies, first led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei and then Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have committed a range of ...

In an effort to justify his war on Iran, President Donald Trump turned to history. He begins with 1979, the year the Islamic ...

The regime has never stopped seeking a weapon, and Obama’s deal didn’t end its pursuit.

Why did President Donald Trump launch Operation Epic Fury? He’s provided a stream of reasons: forcing regime change; destroying Iran’s missile capabilities (to eliminate what he called “imminent ...

The US and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been at each other’s throats for nearly half a century ...

The US-Israeli strikes on Iran came suddenly in late February, 2026, but violence and tension between the three countries is not new. They’ve shared a complex relationship for much of the past century ...

Few Americans have had the opportunity to visit or explore Iran, an ethnically diverse nation of over 90 million people which has been effectively shut off from the United States since the Iranian ...

The attacks have often been carried out by Iranian-backed militant groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and have frequently targeted and killed Americans overseas – particularly in Israel. They have ...