Barry Rosen “lived in darkness” for 444 days after being taken by Iranian revolutionaries on Nov. 4, 1979, each day a new low of feeling “hopeless and helpless .” “Nothing is more important than for ...

Iran's leader made the claim less than a week before the president-elect returns to the White House. In his first term, Trump ...

Khamenei continues to resist such notions. In a defiant speech on January 8, he lambasted the U.S. as an imperialist power ...

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia, accusing them of attempting to interfere in ...

At the time, many blamed Carter for not bringing the US hostages in Iran home. But one Marine says he saved his life.

For those who were there, the memories are still fresh, 45 years after one of the defining events of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, when protesters seized the US Embassy in Tehran and set off a ...

A Swiss national detained in Iran on espionage charges has killed himself at a prison in rural Semnan province. That's ...

On November 4, 1979, students loyal to Khomeini stormed the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 staff hostage, an event that has shaped Iran-US relations for decades. They demanded Washington hand ...

But the militants didn't relent, and threatened to burn the embassy and kill the hostages if the US attempted any military action against Iran. Carter's actions worked in Khomeini's favour as he ...

Former diplomat Barry Rosen was a hostage during the Iran crisis. In an interview with All Things Considered, he reflects on ...

The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S. warrant have grown ...

An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks has been freed and has returned home, after her fate had become ...