The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump
Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.
Muhammad Khatami
Politics vs. Protocol: Iran’s Nuclear Archive and the IAEA’s Responsibilities
Monographs
Oman in the Middle
Muscat’s Balancing Act Between Iran and America
Monographs
The Revolutionary Guard’s Disinformation Campaign to Dominate Iran’s Economy
hen Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was formed shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution,[note][1] Mohsen Sazegara, “The Revolutionary Guard and the Three Perversions,” Personal...
Op-eds
More than One Year Later, Iran’s Protests Endure
Tehran is caught in a straitjacket
Op-eds
The Plan: Iran’s Nuclear Archive Shows it Originally Planned to Build Five Nuclear Weapons by mid-2003
Monographs
The Preeminent Challenge
The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...
Op-eds
The Worst Thing for Iran’s Protesters? U.S. Silence
We are now six days into the Iran protests, and the questions that seized Washington during the 2009 pro-...
Op-eds
Iran’s Theocracy Is on the Brink
Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed int...
Op-eds
Deceptive Deja Vu
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...
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
The Death of Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a Machiavellian Prince
Co-written by Ali Alfoneh. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the principal architect of the Islamic Republic, died of a heart attack at 82. The former parliamentary speake...
Op-eds
Now Is Not The Time To Lift Sanctions On Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran is energetically trying to legitimize its financial sector despite a decades-long rap sheet of illicit financial activities. Since the conclusion of the nuclear deal,...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Holocaust denial is part of a malevolent strategy
Co-written by Ray Takeyh The Islamic Republic of Iran held another ...
Op-eds
Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
Op-eds
Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path
The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...
Op-eds
Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path
The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...
Op-eds
Iran’s Make-Believe Moderates
Barack Obama and his tireless secretary of state sold the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in part as a means to reinforce Iranian “reformers," "moderates," and "pragmatists."...
Op-eds
Iran’s False Choice: Rebranding Hard-Liners as ‘Moderates’
Iranians went to the ballot box last Friday to cast their votes for the Assembly of Experts and the Majles, Iran’s parliament. Reading ...