With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

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 ...

Cyrus the Great, who reigned in the 6th century BCE, is not merely a figure of Iranian pride. He is a towering symbol of ...

Following the 12-day conflict with Israel, Tehran is confronting a lot of difficult issues that could determine the future of ...

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

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

In a phone call with Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed the urgent need for united ...

Afghan returnees say Iranians beat them and harassed them on the streets as Tehran whipped up dangerous rhetoric, accusing ...

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.

His name was Michael Metrinko. “Not dead,” Metrinko quipped recently, “although there were times when maybe I wished I was.” Now in his late 70s, the gregarious, acid-tongued Metrinko spent much of ...