Essential reads on the politics and history of the country’s Islamic regime since the revolution and fall of the Shah in 1979 ...

Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched ...

Thus, the 1979 regime succeeded in blending national and Islamic elements. However, this success does not appear permanent.

One's a president, the other's a supreme leader. One's demanding "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER," the other says "those with wisdom who know Iran" − its people and its history − "never speak to this nation ...

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime is facing scrutiny for widespread human rights violations amid weeks-long protests.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and Tehran. The Kremlin says the “comprehensive strategic ...

It would make little sense to commit heavy resources to offset a secondary worry such as Iran—especially if the opportunity costs were losing out in the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, or ...

The latest season of this ‘Iranian Spring’ began on 28 December 2025, when highly influential merchants of Tehran’s Grand ...

Just six months after the Trump administration said it would begin drawing down U.S. forces in Syria, the U.S. confirmed this week it will also begin reducing the number of U.S. forces in Iraq under ...