Center for Middle East Policy

Followers of late Pakistan military ruler General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq carry his pictures as they assemble at his grave in Islamabad on August 17 to mark his 8th death anniversary. Some 10,000 people took part in the rally and vowed to oust Prime Minister Benazir-Bhutto's government. Zia was killed in a mysterious plane crash in 1988. - PBEAHUMWKBI

1979: Another embassy under siege

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Rosalynn Carter and Jimmy Carter host welcoming ceremony for the state visit of the Shah of Iran and Shahbanou of Iran. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Iran’s revolution and the problem of autocratic allies

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Jimmy Carter and the Shah toast at a State Dinner hosted by the Shah of Iran.. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

1979: Iran and America

Suzanne Maloney

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Pro-Khomeini demonstration in Mashhad - 1978. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pro-Khomeini_demonstration_in_Mashhad_-_1978.jpg

Watch: Experts look back on Iran’s 1979 revolution and the US response

Suzanne Maloney and Bruce Riedel

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Head shot Shah of Iran, Washington, D.C.. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_shot_of_Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi.tif

What Iran’s revolution looked like from inside the shah’s palace

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein addresses the eigth anniversary of the Great Victory Day August 8. In his address marking the ceasefire in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, Saddam rejected Western government accusations that he had spent a fortune on building palaces for himself while his people enjured poverty. He made no mention of his country's oil-for-food deal with the U.N. whose implementation the U.S. approved on Wednesday. - PBEAHUMWIBM

What Iran’s revolution meant for Iraq

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Fighter jets fly over Iranian soldiers parading during the Zolfaghar-2 war games near the Iran-Afghan border on November 2. The war games involved 200,000 army troops, 70,000 Revolutionary Guards, armoured and artillery units as well as commando forces and naval units, supported by the air force and the army air corps in the border areas covering 50,000 sq km (19,300 sq miles).JDP - RP1DRIGJPSAA

How Iran’s regional ambitions have developed since 1979

Itamar Rabinovich

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Demonstrators hold pictures of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (R) and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) during Jerusalem Day demonstration in Tehran October 20, 2006. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN) - GM1DTTJIUTAA

The Iranian revolution and its legacy of terrorism

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Israeli national flag covers a soldier from Ukraine's honour guards during a welcoming ceremony for Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Kiev, Ukraine, September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich - D1BEUDSPOQAA

Iran’s revolution, 40 years on: Israel’s reverse periphery doctrine

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans at a rally against an Egyptian court's decision to sentence Mursi and other leaders to death, as they march under street decoration to mark the holy month of Ramadan in Al Haram street near Giza square, south of Cairo, Egypt June 19, 2015. Mursi will appeal against a conviction for violence, kidnapping and torture imposed by a court over the killing of protesters, his lawyers were quoted as saying by state media on Thursday. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - GF10000133229

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for the Muslim Brotherhood

Shadi Hamid and Sharan Grewal

Thursday, January 24, 2019