War fever is spiking again in Washington, Jerusalem and Tehran. Before stumbling into another round, American policymakers should urgently reexamine two basic questions: What would the United States ...

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

President Donald Trump said the Iran war could become one of the most important achievements of his administration, telling technology executives that future histories of the United States would focus ...

History has repeatedly shown that extremist ideologies, even when they appear to be in conflict with one another, may ...

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 ...

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, a prominent Iranian scholar of political geography, geopolitics, and international boundaries, passed away on October 15, 2026, at the age of 80. His decades of research on ...

For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The ...

Tehran, Iran – Iranian lawmakers have tabled a new plan for the management of the Strait of Hormuz as the hardline-dominated parliament reconvened after nearly five months of confrontation with the ...

Tehran, Iran – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and his team are heading to New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where they are expected to express grievances about the United ...

Iranian theatre artists share how they are creating (or not) while holding space for grief, solidarity, and hope amid ongoing ...

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 ...