ایران

The former Prime Minister discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the Biden administration twenty years after 9/11 and a decade after the Arab Spring.

For two decades and running, diplomatic efforts have noticeably omitted the regional states most directly in the line of Tehran’s fire, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

قانون ظاهرا تحریک‌آمیز هسته‌ای جدید ایران با درنظر گرفتن نقش نسبتاً اندک مجلس در سیاست خارجی، به همان اندازه که واقعی است، نمایشی هم هست.

The operation’s professionalism and complexity suggest the involvement of Israeli personnel; either way, an Iranian security clampdown is inevitable.

Doing so means finding the right mix of hard and soft power, creating new mechanisms with democratic allies, and answering hard questions about various countries and conflicts in the Middle East.

A veteran Israeli official explains how the next administration will differ from its predecessors and why immediate consultations between Biden and Netanyahu’s teams are crucial.

History may be repeating itself as Tehran develops new, smaller, and more secure Iraqi cells reminiscent of the formation of KH itself.

دولت آمریکا با تهدید به بستن سفارت آمریکا در بغداد، تلاش‌های نخست‌وزیر اصلاح‌طلب عراق علیه شبه‌نظامیان مورد حمایت ایران در این کشور را تضعیف می‌کند و روابط بغداد با واشنگتن را به خطر می‌اندازد.

Since its formation in 1979, the Islamic Republic has seen multiple cycles of unrest, from ethnic movements in the early 1980s to urban riots in the early 1990s, student protests spanning 1999-2003, the Green Movement response to the 2009 election, and the December 2017-January 2018 upheaval in smaller cities and