With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

Cyrus the Great, who reigned in the 6th century BCE, is not merely a figure of Iranian pride. He is a towering symbol of ...

In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, Tehran has created a new “Defense Council,” the Islamic Revolutionary ...

One month after Israeli strikes cripple Iranian air defenses, Khamenei turns to old playbook with new power center. It took ...

Rarely in modern history has a military offensive been as loudly and persistently foreshadowed as the June 2025 Israeli and ...

Following the 12-day conflict with Israel, Tehran is confronting a lot of difficult issues that could determine the future of ...

Executions of Iranians convicted of spying for Israel have significantly increased this year, with at least eight death ...

Pegah Banihashemi A few weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, several published statements have called for a referendum and a transition beyond the Islamic Republic. One of these, signed ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s first year in office has been defined by Iran’s familiar political structural constraints, ...

MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

Officials in the Islamic republic are seeking to rally a population rattled by war and increasingly averse to the Muslim ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to the supreme leader, as secretary of the ...