In Washington, the latest speculation is that Iran is deeply divided, perhaps too divided to make a serious diplomatic decision in the standoff with…
Axel Rangel Garcia
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…
Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment as Iran’s new Supreme Leader marks the most consequential political transition in the Islamic Republic in more than…
Iran entered the current conflict in a structurally weakened position. Years of sanctions had battered the economy, and its once formidable network…
Following the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli military strikes on 28 February 2026, a three-member…
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Trump presses pause on Project Freedom
