Within 48 hours this week, Iran filled six of the most important posts in its battered military and security establishment. Ali Abdollahi became…
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On 9 August, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Axios and, in the space of a few sentences, reversed the tone of the previous week. “We're moving…
When it came to the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran this week, the most important man—his son and successor—did not appear…
The deal to end Iran's war with the United States was made by one part of the hardline establishment and might be savaged by another. To judge…
Iran's latest missile strikes against Israel, launched this week in response to an Israeli strike on Beirut's suburb of Dahiyeh, have confirmed a…
In the first weeks after the US-Israel war against Iran, something unusual was happening in Erbil’s car dealerships. Representatives of Iranian…
In Washington, the latest speculation is that Iran is deeply divided, perhaps too divided to make a serious diplomatic decision in the standoff with…
Economic blockades have long been used as a tool of coercion, deliberately positioned between diplomacy and war. From the British naval blockade of…
Israel’s killings of Ali Larijani and Kamal Kharazi were meant to do more than remove two senior figures from the Islamic Republic’s political…
What made Mohammad Javad Zarif’s recent Foreign Affairs article so explosive was not simply what he proposed, but when and where he proposed it…
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