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Regions Middle East Persian Gulf Iran

Iran

Explore Foreign Affairs ’ coverage of Iran’s history, the country’s contemporary politics, and Tehran’s changing role in the Middle East.

Top Stories

The Beginning of the End of the Islamic Republic

Iranians Have Had Enough of Theocracy

Masih Alinejad

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A New Order in the Middle East?

Maria Fantappie , Vali Nasr

How China Became a Peacemaker in the Middle East

Trita Parsi , Khalid Aljabri

The Counterinsurgent’s Curriculum

Peter R. Mansoor

What the Neocons Got Wrong

Netanyahu Can’t Have It All

After the Iran Deal

Suzanne Maloney

Israel’s Dangerous Shadow War With Iran

Dalia Dassa Kaye

Axis of Convenience

Dina Esfandiary

Iran’s Hard-Liners Are Winning

The Long Twilight of the Islamic Republic

Iran’s Protesters Want Regime Change

Eric Edelman , Ray Takeyh

Will Iran’s Regime Survive?

Iran’s Women on the Frontlines

Zoe Marks , Fatemeh Haghighatjoo , Erica Chenoweth

The Beginning of the End of the Islamic Republic

The Folly of Iran’s Hard-Liners

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

Iran’s Crisis of Legitimacy

The Revenge of Muqtada al-Sadr

Last Chance For America and Iran

The United States Needs a Better Strategy to Deter Iran

What America Should Do If the Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Fail

Maria Fantappie , Vali Nasr

The Price of Order

F. Gregory Gause III

The End of the Middle East

Israel’s New Strategy

Amos Yadlin , Assaf Orion

America Has No Good Options on Iran

The Search for Stability in Afghanistan

A Short History of Islamic Thought

Iran Won’t Back Down

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare

Lawrence D. Freedman

The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty

The Bomb Will Backfire on Iran

How to Save the Iran Nuclear Deal

Ali Vaez , Vali Nasr

Iran’s War Within

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

How Iran and Saudi Arabia Can Together Bring Peace to the Middle East

Vali Nasr , Maria Fantappie

Iran’s Rigged Election

Israel and Iran Are Pulling the United States Toward Conflict

Daniel C. Kurtzer , Aaron David Miller , Steven Simon

Israel’s Shadow War With Iran Doesn’t Have to Strain Relations With the U.S.

The Dilemma of Iran’s Resistance Economy

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

The Penitent Pope

Biden’s Narrow Window of Opportunity on Iran

The Other Carter Doctrine

Stability in the Middle East Requires More Than a Deal With Iran

Why Are Al Qaeda Leaders in Iran?

Iran Isn’t Just a Nuclear File

The United States Must Move Forward, Not Back, on Iran

Iran Wants the Nuclear Deal It Made

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Iran Is in Syria to Stay

Elizabeth Dent , Ariane M. Tabatabai

China and Russia Have Iran’s Back

Jamsheed K. Choksy , Carol E. B. Choksy

The Real Threat of Foreign Interference Comes After Election Day

Laura Rosenberger

No Matter Who Is U.S. President, Iran Will Drive a Harder Bargain Than Before

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

On Iran, the Next Administration Must Break With the Past

Elisa Catalano Ewers , Ilan Goldenberg , Kaleigh Thomas

The Revolutionary Guards Are Poised to Take Over Iran

Ali Reza Eshraghi , Amir Hossein Mahdavi

The Only Way Out of the Middle East Is Through It

What Iran Wants in Afghanistan

Colin P. Clarke , Ariane M. Tabatabai

Iran and the United States Can’t See Each Other Clearly

A Pandemic Opportunity With Iran

Stuart E. Eizenstat , Thomas R. Pickering

Iraq Can Now Wrest Its Sovereignty From Iran

America’s Opportunity in the Middle East

Daniel Benaim , Jake Sullivan

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Play Politics With the Coronavirus

Ariane M. Tabatabai

The Iraq War Paved the Way for Coronavirus Catastrophe

Iran’s Hard-Liners Are Sitting Pretty

Trump and Iran: From Containment to Confrontation

The Next Iranian Revolution

Eric S. Edelman , Ray Takeyh

Sanctions Make the Coronavirus More Deadly

Hadi Kahalzadeh

The Coronavirus Is Exacerbating Sectarian Tensions in the Middle East

Toby Matthiesen

The Coronavirus Is Iran’s Perfect Storm

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Pandemics Ravaged Iran Long Before the Coronavirus

Amir A. Afkhami

Crony Capitalism in the Middle East: Business and Politics From Liberalization to the Arab Spring

A New Nuclear Deal Won’t Secure the Middle East

The Wounded Presidency, Part Two

Timothy Naftali

Trump’s Strikes Risk Upending Iraqi Politics

The Cost of an Incoherent Foreign Policy

Ordinary Brother, Exceptional General

Maryam Alemzadeh

Syria’s Kurdish Forces Hold Back the Tides

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Hezbollah Has Prepared for This Moment for Decades

Can Oman’s New Leader Uphold Sultan Qaboos’s Peaceful Legacy?

Nikita Lalwani , Josh Rubin , Sam Winter-Levy

Trump’s Napoleon Moment

Robert Zaretsky

Soleimani Was More Valuable in Politics Than in War

Maysam Behravesh

The U.S.-Iraqi Relationship Can Still Be Salvaged

Meghan L. O'Sullivan

How to Avoid Another War in the Middle East

Will Iran’s Response to the Soleimani Strike Lead to War?

Ilan Goldenberg

The Death of the U.S.-Iraqi Relationship

Temperature Rising: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East

Iran’s Protests Are Not Just About Gas Prices

Mohammad Ali Kadivar , Saber Khani , Abolfazl Sotoudeh

A Better Iran Deal Is Within Reach

The Ayatollah’s Den of Espionage

Maysam Behravesh

Peace Is Possible in Yemen

April Longley Alley , Peter Salisbury

Iran Is Doing Just Fine

How Iran Found Its Feet in Afghanistan

Iran, the Unitary State

Afshon Ostovar , Ariane M. Tabatabai

Iran Resurgent: The Rise and Rise of the Shia State

America’s Great Satan

Daniel Benjamin , Steven Simon

The Unwanted Wars

The Long Game in Iraq

Robert S. Ford , Randa Slim

Iran Is Testing the Trump Administration

What Would It Take for Iran’s President to Meet With Trump?

Syria Changed the Iranian Way of War

Ariane M. Tabatabai

Does Iran Pose the Ultimate Threat?

How to Understand the United States and Iran

Friends With Caveats

Yoel Guzansky , Daniel B. Shapiro

How Iran Sees Its Standoff With the United States

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

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