Friday is the 116th anniversary of the Persian Constitutional Revolution, the first democratic revolution in the Middle East. And the protest culture spawned by that revolution is alive and well ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Iranian American writer Reza Aslan about similarities between the current protests in Iran and the Constitutional Revolution of 1906. Women and girls in Iran ...

Iran is highly fragmented and doesn’t have a long tradition of democracy or a unified opposition movement. So what happens if ...

Iran, of course, has had three major revolutions over the course of the last century—in 1979, 1953, and 1906. But it is the first of those revolutions, the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 ...

Millions of residents have left Tehran as Israel continues to attack Iran. Main roads have been clogged with traffic as ...

Since Israel began its concerted attack on Iran, calls for regime change have grown louder, with US President Donald Trump ...

The timing and targets of Israels attacks on Iran tell us that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus short-term goal is to damage Irans nuclear facilities in order to severely diminish its weapons ...

His rule saw the unfolding of the Constitutional Revolution, a pivotal moment in Iran's political transformation that established a parliament and constitutional monarchy. "It was a time when ...

Aslan is writing there not about today but about a different moment in Iranian history - one most Americans have probably never heard of - the Constitutional Revolution of 1905. He argues it's the ...