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…
Forty days into a hugely costly war that neither side had fully intended to fight, but both had in some way or another long prepared for, the guns…
The latest twist in Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf's long career says a great deal about the man and the system that made him. When reports surfaced this…
Leadership decapitation has long appealed to outside powers as a shortcut to regime collapse. Remove the figure at the top, the theory goes, and an…
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Iran uses its leverage against the US
