During Iran’s 2013 presidential campaign, Hassan Rouhani marketed himself to a wary Iranian public and hard-line political establishment as the man who could...
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the contested re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, which spurred the country’s...
Since its Islamist revolution of 1979, Iran's hard-line leadership has relentlessly painted America as a racist, bloodthirsty power bent on oppressing Muslims...
Does Iran's upcoming parliamentary election on March 14 deserve to be taken seriously? Or is it simply a sham vote for an emasculated institution?...
As the future of both Pakistan and its president, Pervez Musharraf, wallow in uncertainty in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, parallels are being...
"You know the thing about Iran," a European ambassador in Tehran once lamented to me. "It has such a rich culture, a grand history, wonderful people. The...
As the international community wrestles with Iran's nuclear ambitions, a longstanding debate on the nuclear issue rages in Tehran, and Western policymakers...
Few strategic alliances in the modern Middle East have stood the test of time as long as that between Iran's Islamic regime and Syria's Baathist regime. In...
During World War II, Allied soldiers occupied Iran, using the country as a way station to transport supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union. As...
In the spring of 2003, shortly after U.S.-led forces captured Baghdad with surprising speed, more than a few Western analysts began to foretell winds of...
Iran’s recent parliamentary election fiasco seemingly confirmed for Iranian reformists a conclusion that tens of millions of Iranian citizens had reached long...
Do the people of Iran want the bomb? Iran’s recent decision to allow for tighter inspection of its nuclear facilities which it says are for...
There is perhaps no government in the world more outspoken in its enmity toward Israel than the Islamic Republic of Iran. Tehran’s ruling mullahs routinely...
While it is difficult to generalize the feelings of a nation of nearly 70 million people, there is little doubt that the overwhelming majority of Iranians...