"It's an event that ranks among the most seminal in history," said Tunku Varadarajan in The Wall Street Journal, and yet the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79 left behind questions that have "tormented ...
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 ...