Iran has fought some of the most powerful empires in history and survived. Its borders have remained remarkably durable for centuries, and attempts to conquer or subjugate the country have repeatedly ...

The next Congress must stop the war if President Trump hasn’t done so before January. But that won’t happen unless voters ...

This approach to carrying out violence abroad has several advantages for Iran. First, criminals often have capabilities that ...

Among close followers of Iran, the late historian Richard Nelson Frye is a household name. Beyond that world, however, he is little known. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, Frye’s ...

A 100-million-year-old volcanic arc in Iran holds clues to the history of a vanished ocean whose closure helped shape the Middle East.

Iran's Islamic revolution was not just an Islamic revolution. A diverse set of factions, from Marxist-Leninists to religious nationalists, participated in overthrowing the monarchy. But their hopes ...

US Will Impose 'Toughest Sanctions in History' on Iran, Bessent Says By Kanishka Singh and Jana Choukeir WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. will impose "the toughest sanctions in history" ...

From the capital, Tehran, to the holy city of Mashhad, the Iran I saw was a nation of many layers: defiant but also weary, despairing but hopeful. A portrait of a defiant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looms ...

With the prospects for diplomacy between the United States and Iran uncertain, it may seem premature to contemplate the postwar future. After all, following the June 17 memorandum of understanding, ...

Unless Donald Trump finds a way out of his box on Iran, history may come to regard his choice to wage war as a presidency-defining error. But he has so far avoided ...

The U.S. deal with Iran signed in June initially appeared to be a success. It didn’t take long to fall apart. The U.S. deal with Iran signed in June initially appeared to be a success. It didn’t take ...

I was a freshman in college when my dad died. An Iranian Jew who came to the United States four years before the Islamic ...