The Middle East is on the brink of a geopolitical earthquake. For close to half a century, since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, clerical Iran has been the organizing principle of the Middle East.

Iranian universities have long been places of reform and political imagination – as well as targets of censorship and ...

Last week's arrival of Noor Ahmed Noor in New Delhi - the first Afghan chargé d'affaires appointed under the Taliban government - marked a quiet but consequential moment in regional diplomacy, ...

In the wake of spiraling tensions between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s violent crackdown on protests, analysts ...

Onetime allies, the United States and Iran have seen tensions escalate repeatedly in the four decades since the Islamic ...

Whether by overthrow or old age, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, will soon need a replacement — but the Islamic ...

While Iran’s current protest movement was sparked by economic collapse, its momentum has revealed ideological disagreements ...

The regime may have been able to crush the latest wave of protests using its tried-and-tested playbook of repression. But the ...

Iran is complex. But a Rutgers professor says there is a clear solution to the U.S. avoiding war and promoting democracy.

Jeiran cited Abdanan, a small town in western Iran, as one emblematic example. “The authorities assumed the protests were about poverty and distributed rice to the residents,” she said. “The people ...

Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters ...