Iran at the Epicenter
REVIEW: ‘Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran’ by Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Pahlavi dynasty
Iran and U.S. Set To Meet for New Talks as University Students Revive Domestic Protests
Students Spark New Protests: Iranian university students led renewed anti-regime protests on February 22, calling for the fall of the Islamic Republic and commemorating those murdered...
Flash Briefs
After Khamanei: What the Fall of Iran’s Regime Would Mean for the Region
The fall of Iran’s Islamist regime would mark one of the most seismic shifts in Middle Eastern geopolitics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought it to power. As massive protests grip the...
Op-eds
Natural allies: Iranians reject regime’s anti-Israel policies
Once allies, Iran and Israel now face deep hostility due to the Islamic Republic’s anti-Israel stance; many Iranians, frustrated with the regime’s oppression and failed policies, view Israel as a natural ally, embracing shared interests and historic bonds
Op-eds
Cognitive Combat
China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans
Monographs
The Despotic Duo
Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests
Legislative Testimonies
Iran’s Protesters Want Regime Change
America Should Lend Them a Hand
Op-eds
The Iranian theocracy’s downfall is a goal worth working toward
Fate is sometimes kind to America. Such merciful intervention happened last summer when Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, rejected the Biden administration’s effort to revive former President Barack...
Op-eds
Maximum Support for the Iranian People: A New Strategy
Introduction U.S. policy since the 2009 election-related uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a variety of human rights related sanctions and designations to name, shame, penalize, and deter Iranian...
Memos
The Republic of Fatwas
Last week, a Shiite American of Lebanese origin, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, attempted to murder the Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie. Matar’s social media posts display staunch support...
Op-eds
Tehran, the Day After
What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?
Op-eds
Oman Must Isolate, Not Embrace, the Houthis
The Switzerland of the Middle East can still serve as a center for regional diplomacy. But even Switzerland does not offer safe haven to terrorists.
Op-eds
Iran Is More Than Persia
Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic
Monographs
Iran’s Multiethnic Society Explains Why Tehran Fears Democracy
Iran faces the democracy conundrum: in multi-ethnic states where one non-majority group prevails over others, democratization entails risk of loss of empire.
Op-eds
Iran on cusp of new era
The State Department released a video earlier this month showcasing the rights Iranians enjoyed before a radical Islamist dictatorship came to power in 1979. Many Iranians and Iranian Americans celebrated...
Op-eds
The IRGC Took Over Iran’s Telecoms Industry with a Disinformation Campaign. Then, It Used the Industry to Amplify Its Own Lies
Spreading disinformation is one of the tools that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has used to eliminate rivals since it first entered Iran’s economic arena. Disinformation campaigns are...
Op-eds
The Rial’s Fall Shakes Tehran
A small number of merchants in Tehran on June 24 protested against the rapid depreciation of the rial, the Iranian currency. One day later, that small protest turned into the largest demonstratio...
Op-eds
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
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
Iran’s Supreme Censor
The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is...