With the Islamic Republic under strain, a new book shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck. The Islamic Republic ...

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 ...

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

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

The two countries have plenty in common, but Israel has a national security asset that the Islamic Republic will never have ...

For former political prisoner Saeedeh Fathi, Israel’s strike on the ultimate symbol of the Iranian regime’s oppression ...

The theocratic government is repurposing folklore and patriotic anthems as it seeks to channel national outrage into ...

What we are witnessing is not a breakdown of refugee policy, but the continuation – albeit with renewed intensity – of a ...

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

The Supreme National Security Council is responsible for laying out the country's defence and security strategy.

"Maybe this will be the next fall in the domino effect of this regime," a former Israeli intelligence officer told Newsweek.