“Argo,” the Ben Affleck movie about the Iranian hostage crisis, continues to build momentum for the Oscars, nabbing the Directors Guild Award over the weekend, to go along with its Screen Actors Guild ...

Anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis came earlier this week. Clockwise from left: Scoot McNairy as Joe Stafford, Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz, Chris Denham as Mark Lijek, ...

Ben Affleck knows his portrayal of Iran in the Oscar winning Argo disappointed the country at the heart of the subject matter. But after the amazing February he had collecting trophies from every ...

It looks like Ben Affleck will not be receiving any congratulatory phone calls from Iran today, after the media there dismissed his film's triumph at the Academy Awards as "Hollywood insiders ...

Tony Mendez became a legend inside the CIA with his daring 1980 rescue of six American diplomats who were given shelter by the Canadian Embassy in Tehran after the U.S. Embassy had been stormed by ...

A former CIA technical operations officer who helped rescue six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980 and was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the film "Argo," has died. He was 78. A family statement and his ...

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Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said on Tuesday that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Antonio "Tony" Mendez is the rarest of creatures: A former spy who has come out of the woodwork. His story is the subject of Ben Affleck's new film, "Argo," released in the United ...

Based on real events, Argo takes you behind the scenes of the covert operation to rescue six Americans during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The guise of the operation? The hostages are part of a ...