Iran

The protests in Iran following the tripling of fuel prices are arguably the most significant in the 40-year history of the Islamic Republic. They could be a harbinger of things to come, writes Ali Fathollah-Nejad.  The New...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader’s website said. Former judge Raisi, who currently heads the holy shrine of Imam...

By Juan Cole The annual State Department report on terrorism says that terrorist attacks were down by 23% world wide in 2017. The report attributed this decline in some large part to the defeat of ISIL in Iraq...

After having ostensibly defeated the Palestinians, Israel feels ready to deal with the more distant threat of Iran By Ofri Ilany What’s the reason for Israel’s current confrontation with Iran? In the past few weeks, the surging...

Juan Cole U.S. President Donald Trump has allegedly complained to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that after the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranians “think they can do anything they want.” Presumably Trump was referring to Iran’s...

By Gareth Porter Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart. In my reporting on U.S.-Israeli policy, I have tracked numerous episodes in which...