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

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

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

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

Iran executed a man on Wednesday convicted of spying for Israel and passing on information about a nuclear scientist killed in Israel's June attacks on the Islamic Republic, the judiciary's news ...

Iran has appointed a veteran politician to head the country’s top security body, signalling what observers said was an ...

Pegah Banihashemi A few weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, several published statements have called for a referendum and a transition beyond the Islamic Republic. One of these, signed ...

A month after the end of the conflict between Iran and Israel, the damage caused by the Islamic republic remains unclear ...

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast, and the IRGC, in claiming it was taking on the world, feels backed into a corner. In ...

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

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

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