AUSTIN (KXAN) — After the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear facilities last week, questions were raised by experts and officials about how much damage was caused by those strikes. This comes after a ...
United States-Iran tensions have surged to the highest point in decades after President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered direct strikes that he said “obliterated” key nuclear facilities across the ...
KXAN's Avery Travis and Erica Brennes speak with Jeremi Suri, a professor of public affairs and history at the University of Texas, to talk about the conflict between Israel and Iran, as well as the ...
The U.S. aerial strike against Iran was conducted under such unique circumstances that it offers as many questions as lessons. The Israeli air campaign, conducted exclusively with fighter jets, had so ...
Strange to think, but there was a time when the United States’ most steadfast ally in the Middle East was Iran. In 1953, the C.I.A. had backed a coup that ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, the popular Prime ...
As Minnesotans with shared roots in one of history’s great civilizations — Iran — we write in the wake of pivotal events reshaping the Middle East. Ali was born in Tehran and came to the U.S. just ...
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 ...
Since Israel’s 12-day war against Iran, Tehran and its network of regional proxies and non-state allies, the so-called Axis of Resistance, have entered a phase of strategic dormancy — an outward calm ...
"Iran, the former Persia, lies at an interface between West-East and North-South. Several early trade routes crossed the country, connecting Asia, Africa and Europe, and the cultural wealth and scenic ...
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This summer, the Islam-Qala border crossing between Iran’s Razavi Khorasan province and Afghanistan’s Herat province has presented a bleak scene as the Iranian regime has violently expelled Afghans ...
United States-Iran tensions have surged to the highest point in decades after President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered direct strikes that he said “obliterated” key nuclear facilities across the ...