Readers discuss historical and legal aspects of the war. Also: Richard Nixon and a Watergate episode; America’s voting problem; scenes from “The Pitt.”

Mosaddegh was arrested and replaced by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Pahlavi would go on to run the country for the next two and a half decades, a period when Iran was one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East. The CIA denied having any involvement in the coup for 60 years before finally admitting to its role in 2013.

In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR's podcast "Throughline," explains how.

Iran is in the news again. This time because the bazaar joined protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran and many protesters have been reported killed and seriously injured. The bazaar is a microcosm of economic activity by the merchant class mixed ...

Seed of the Sacred Fig’ director Mohammad Rasoulof calls Iran’s dead leader Ali Khamenei 'the most hated figure in the contemporary history of Iran.'

And can this really be the same Donald Trump who used to ridicule the regime-changing, democracy-building visions of “neocons”—and now tells the Washington Post, “All I want is freedom for the people”?

The exiled crown prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi reacted to the news of the “bloodthirsty" Ayatollah and killer of tens of thousands being "erased from the pages of history.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late on Saturday broke his silence about the U.S. strikes on Iran, which he described as the “most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history.” “The Iranian regime had their chance,