Reckless fantasies of balkanizing the country misunderstands Iranian nationalism and risks catastrophic blowback ...

All week we’ve been talking to experts on Iran’s nuclear program, its leadership and on U.S. foreign policy, as President ...

In Iranian culture and history, monarchy has not merely been a political system it has represented a sacred, cultural, and national concept. Unlike the troubled republican experiences seen ...

Comments and video updates from inside Iran show that many are blaming the ayatollahs for Israel’s airstrikes.

The events that have unfolded should not be mischaracterized as a war between nations. The Iranian people, many of whom have ...

A surge of patriotic fervour has swept Iran since the war, but deep disillusionment with the theocratic regime remains ...

Even if there is a regime change in Iran, no new government there will survive unless it sustains and perhaps surpasses the ...

There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in ...

OP-ED. The Israeli attack and the US airstrikes are seen in Iran as comparable to the intervention the United States led in ...

His rule lasted until the 1979 Iranian revolution, but Alvandi said the coup remains a “touchstone” of modern Iranian nationalism. When Mossadegh was elected to power on a nationalist platform of ...