Commentators have assumed that Iran's Green Movement was finished, but the history of political turmoil in twentieth-century Iran suggests that the movement may yet survive. More on Iran
Institute executive director Robert Satloff debated former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman at a Nixon Center forum on the question of whether Israel is an asset or liability to American strategic interests. Watch complete video of the event. More on U.S. Policy
This new report from the Stein Program and Project Fikra argues that the Obama administration should explicitly recognize the role of ideology in driving and justifying terrorism while sharpening the distinction between the religion of Islam and the political ideology of radical Islamism.
Mehdi Khalaji argues that the silence of Iran's clerical establishment in the face of regime attacks on reform-minded clergy points to tension between the establishment and the government, not indifference.
In this special event report, former Revolutionary Guardsman turned CIA double agent Reza Kahlili gives an insider's perspective on Tehran's most potent instrument of control, the IRGC.