Revolution

January 1, 2018 | Mark Dubowitz |

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...

January 9, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Rafsanjani: A Revolutionary, Not a Reformer

Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of a heart attack Sunday at age 82. Often described as a “...

November 5, 2015 | |

Panzer auf der Landebahn

Bei seiner Antrittsrede vor den iranischen Revolutionsgarden am 16. September 2013 schlug der neu gewählte Präsident Hassan Rohani den versammelten Kommandeuren einen Deal vor: Die Revo...

March 12, 2015 | Tony Badran |

Iran is Exporting its Islamic Revolution into Syria, Iraq and Yemen Just as it Did in Lebanon

At a rally last month on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani gloated: “We are witnessin...

December 12, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

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...

November 12, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Iran Through Rose-Colored Glasses

“The revolution is over.” When journalists at The Economist, one of the world’s most influential publications, run that headline on a cover story, “a special report”...

October 23, 2014 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Long Shadow of the Iran-Iraq War

For a conflict that still captivates much of Iran’s ruling elite, the Iran-Iraq War gets very little attention in the United States. Over the years, we’ve...

April 7, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Nuclear Shadow

During the past decade, Western diplomats have been engaged in protracted negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear program. Though a deal remains elusive, Western policymak...

July 26, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Great Collision

For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...

March 14, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

St. Patrick’s Day with Edmund Burke

What Burke and Conor Cruise O’Brien can teach us about preventing the triumph of evil.

February 6, 2012 |

The Military, Not Mubarak, was Egyptians’ Real Enemy

Aside from Egypt, perhaps no place in the world was more galvanized by the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year than Washington. American policymakers and foreign policy experts on bot...

June 16, 2011 | Faster, Please! |

How To Make Revolution Work

I am a big fan of Walter Russell Mead, and his recent essay on “The Conservative Revolutionary” shows him in top form.  Mead is one of the few who understands that human history...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

The Government’s Jihad on Jihad

Still lookin' for love in all the wrong places.

July 19, 2010 | |

Should Israel Bomb Iran?

There is only one thing that terrifies Washington’s foreign policy establishment more than the prospect of an American airstrike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities: an Israeli...