Iran’s government appointed Mohammad Reza Farzin as the new governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in late December as the country’s national currency, the rial, plummeted against the U.S. dollar....
The longer we refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Iran deal, the greater a price we pay
America Should Lend Them a Hand
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.
In the Tehran echo chamber, Putin’s war is another indication of the cost of trusting America.
Biden’s unwise Iran policy
A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America
A change in Iranian presidents doesn’t change the badness of the Iran deal.
Ebrahim Raisi, who will take office on August 8 as president of the Islamic Republic in Iran, met with India’s foreign minister last week, with two top officials in tow: Mohammad Javad Zarif, Tehran’s...
Similar to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his day, there are no fake smiles to the West and no illusions when it comes to Iran's president-elect. He openly states his very clear views, and it will be hard to argue, as a result, that Iran needs to be treated sympathetically.
This month, Iran held the most boring — and most consequential — presidential election in its history. Boring because the election was rigged virtually from the start. What made it consequential is...
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. On May 15, Ali Larijani, the former speaker of Iran’s parliament, registered to run for president. Ten days later, the Guardian Council – an unelected, 12-member...
Elections have consequences, even in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nobody knows this better than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the country’s most powerful person and most important “voter.” Through...
In a revealing comment, the Islamic Republic’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, said last week that the November 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizaded, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, was arranged...
It’s not every day that a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization throws his hat into the ring for president, not even in the Islamic Republic of...
Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, says that new sanctions on 18 Iranian banks are part of a deliberate U.S. effort to cause shortages of food and medicine. It’s a claim that the Tehran regime has...
Iran’s sanctions-evasion schemes involving Turkey “started earlier, lasted longer, extended further, and involved more people and countries” than previously known, according to a series of deeply...
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” wrote Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man. Such sentiment describes perfectly the lingering adherents of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA....
The president offered to help Turkey’s strongman beat U.S. courts, John Bolton has revealed. It only helps Iran.