One month after Israeli strikes cripple Iranian air defenses, Khamenei turns to old playbook with new power center. It took ...

In other words, how did the Islamic Revolution of 1979 come to be, and why did its leaders endure? The revolution was ...

In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, Tehran has created a new “Defense Council,” the Islamic Revolutionary ...

Iran has appointed a veteran politician to head the country’s top security body, signalling what observers said was an attempt to rein in hardliners and reorder the country’s defence establishment ...

The Mossad’s fateful refusal to eliminate Ayatollah Khomeini is a misjudgment with reprecrussions still felt today. In ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s first year in office has been defined by Iran’s familiar political structural constraints, ...

Several Iranian activists have published statements calling for a transition beyond the Islamic Republic. What might awaken a ...

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

The commander-in-chief of Iran's military, Amir Hatami, said on Sunday that threats from Israel persist, according to state ...

For decades, Iran has been an adversary of the United States. Scott Anderson examines the Iranian revolution of 1979, the upheaval that deposed the reigning monarch and transformed the country from a ...