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People look at a damaged building in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025. Majid Asgaripour / REUTERS

Israel strikes Iran

The attack comes after a frenzy of speculation that Israel was planning to take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities

Foreign Policy 13, Jun 2025
A 3D-printed miniature model depicting US President Donald Trump, Iranian and American flags in this illustration. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic

Trump standoff with Iran reaches fever pitch

Tensions reach a boiling point as an IAEA report finds Tehran in breach of its nuclear obligations. Meanwhile, US personnel are ordered out of the region in a sign that escalation may be imminent.

Con Coughlin 12, Jun 2025
Iranian motorists drive past a billboard depicting an Israeli soldier receiving military supplies from the United States at Tehran's central Valiasr square on November 6, 2024. ATTA KENARE / AFP

Preventing the next Middle East disaster

Trump should continue turning the page toward a new Middle East and manage escalation with Iran carefully

Adham Z. Sahloul 12, Jun 2025
US President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, June 10, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Trump’s choice on Iran

Will he be the president to finally break America's addiction to Middle East interventions?

Emma Ashford 11, Jun 2025
This picture shows a magazine front page at a kiosk in Tehran on April 19, 2025, featuring the Iran-US talks on the Iranian nuclear programme. ATTA KENARE/ AFP

US-Iran talks steam ahead

Both sides are committed to getting a deal, but will outsiders be able to derail them?

Arash Azizi 29, Apr 2025
The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flies in front of its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo

UN Nuclear Officials Leave Iran After Talks, Result Unclear

U.N. nuclear watchdog officials left Iran on Monday after talks with the head of its nuclear energy organization, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, without saying whether they addressed an…

19, Dec 2022
1-	The atomic symbol and the Iranian flag are seen in this illustration, July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Iranian Regime Refuses to Accept Final Draft

Both the United States and the European Union announced through their spokespersons that they were "considering" a response to the so-called "final text" of an agreement to restore the 2015 Iran…

Mahdi Akabaei 26, Aug 2022
Mahdi Akbaei

Mullahs’ IRGC: Biggest Daily Threat to Regional Security, Stability

So far, the White House has been reluctant to accept the Iranian regime's demand that the mullahs' IRGC be removed from the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, as a condition…

Mahdi Akabaei 27, Apr 2022
An Iranian cleric walks past a mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran. (Getty)

The Case Against the Iran Deal

Proponents of the Iran nuclear agreement are sounding the alarm. In 2018, the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and since then, Iran has increased the quality and…

Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi 31, Jan 2021

How the Middle East Will Fare Under US President Joe Biden

Now that Joe Biden is officially the 46th president of the United States, the main question for many Middle East watchers and policy makers, is not how his policy will differ from Trump’s maximum…

Hanin Ghaddar 19, Jan 2021
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Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

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What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

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A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
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Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

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Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
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Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

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How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz

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