Hostile powers sought to plunder Iranian resources by plotting 1953 coup

US current hostile relationship towards Iran should be traced back to 1953

FM Zarif hits out at the US on Iran coup anniversary

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hit out at the US for setting up a team to coordinate its pressure campaign on Iran, saying it is yet another plot to topple the Iranian government.

Imam Khomeini exposed US animosity towards Iran

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic once said in a historic message that takeover of the US embassy also known as ‘den of espionage’ by students was a natural reaction to the animosity being displayed by the US against the Iranian nation.

Iranian students believed the US mission had turned into a center of spying

In November 1979 and in less than a year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed Pahlavi monarchy, Iranian university students seized the US embassy in Tehran.

Tillerson remarks 'deceptive', US leaders 'ignorant'

Iran has lashed out at "impudent, deceptive and interventionist" remarks of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson about what he called the need for the Iranian people to take back control of their government.

Former Iranian FM Ebrahim Yazdi passes away

Ebrahim Yazdi, a senior Iranian politician and diplomat who served as foreign minister in the Islamic Republic’s interim government in 1979, has passed away

Imam Khomeini strongly denounced CIA orchestrated 1953 coup

Over six decades have passed since coup d’état against Iran's first democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. The notorious US and British-orchestrated coup was completed on August 19 in 1953.