For many Americans, President Jimmy Carter’s legacy is one of compassion and moral integrity. But for me and countless other Iranian families — scattered across the globe as dissidents or ...

Jimmy Carter's critics turned his name into a synonym for weakness over the Iranian hostage crisis. But by any measure, he also scored major achievements on the world stage through his mix of ...

"Iran can fire hundreds of ballistic missiles at any given time and saturate Israeli or U.S. air defenses." Carter said Iran's naval forces also have fast-moving small boats armed with anti-ship ...

Eizenstat and White House Counsel Robert Lipschutz successfully lobbied Carter to create a special — ostensibly temporary — visa that enabled some 50,000 Iranian Jews to enter the United ...

Mounting pressure to rescue hostages in Iran led Jimmy Carter to order a rescue operation. "We can no longer depend on diplomacy," said Carter in April. But when the "Desert One" operation failed ...

THE CARTER CENTER: A nonpartisan ... I will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it." SHAH OF IRAN (1919-1980): Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the ruling monarch of Iran from 1941 until ...