The Next Iranian Revolution
Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran
Iranian Green Movement
Iran vs. Trump: Suleimani’s Legacy, and Khamenei’s Ambitions
The supreme leader and Trump may well end the long-running, region-defining clash. We just don't know yet quite how.
Op-eds
The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump
Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.
Op-eds
Iran’s regime stokes more antisemitism amid Gulf tensions, ADL report
"A Persian-language cartoon published by Fars News in April solely blamed the Jewish people or Israel for tightening U.S. sanctions on Iranian energy exports."
Op-eds
Trump ignores Hong Kong protesters and focuses on China’s money
The demonstrators are standing up to an authoritarian bully — and the president's indifference to their plight is both immoral and reckless.
Op-eds
Mullah report
When President Trump withdrew the United States from his predecessor's nuclear deal with Iran last May, he set in motion what he wanted to avoi...
Op-eds
What “Yes” With Iran Looks Like
Memos
Evolving Menace
Iran’s Use of Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Monographs
Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal, and to relentlessly pressure the Islamic Republic, has elicited a predictable response. Critics cite history, particularly a count...
Op-eds
Lawmakers Can Defend Iranian Dissidents and Punish the Revolutionary Guards at the Same Time
There is bipartisan consensus in Congress on the need to support the nonviolent protesters in Iran who are calling for an end to corruption and dictatorship. One important way to protect the prot...
Policy Briefs
How to Defeat the Islamic Republic
Iran’s modern history is replete with examples of the citizenry seeking to reclaim power from despots. The Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled between 1925 and 1979, regularly faced popular rebell...
Op-eds
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
Tehran’s Own Worst Enemy
It’s easy for scholarly books that go against the Zeitgeist to slip by unnoticed, but it would be a mistake to overlook Misagh Parsa’s “Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How...
Op-eds
In Iran’s Election, Americans Should Root for the ‘Hard-Liner’
In Washington there is a consensus that the re-election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in the best interests of the U.S. Most find the self-avowed pragmatic cleric, who championed the 201...
Op-eds
How Trump can help cripple the Iranian regime
A consensus has developed in Washington for some “push back” against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Democrats and Republicans would be well-advised to learn fr...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Iran and the future of the Middle East
Nixon went to China. Obama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the com...
Op-eds
Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path
The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...
Op-eds
Khamenei’s Latest Moves to Solidify Hardline Gains
The legendary cleric Abbas Vaez Tabasi died this month after thirty-seven years supe...
Op-eds
Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path
The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...