ABC News takes a look back 36 years to the Iranian Revolution. — -- On Feb. 11 each year, Iranians take to the streets in celebration of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The ...
Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...
In October 1971, approximately 2,500 years after Cyrus the Great founded the Persian Empire, the man who would become its final king laid a wreath at his tomb in Pasargadae. Before a large crowd of ...