Ruhollah Khomeini

Inside The Cauldron: Iran, America, Israel, and the End of Khomeinism

Iran at the Epicenter

REVIEW: ‘Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran’ by Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

Have We Lost the Iran War?

Has the United States lost the Iran war?  The Iranian regime certainly thinks it has.  The big Iranian funk that came after the 12-Day War in June, which climaxed the Israeli multi-front offensive...

Treasury Says Iran Controls Hezbollah. Lebanon Is Still Responsible.

Washington has potentially raised the cost of doing business with Hezbollah by formally tying the group to Iran under U.S. sanctions law. On Thursday, August 20, the Treasury Department’s Office...

Beware Iran’s most devious weapon — another ‘October surprise’

The October surprise was born in Iran — and 46 years later, the Islamic Republic may be preparing to launch another one. In 1980, the hostage crisis — 52 Americans seized at the US embassy...

The Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary DNA

Hidden alliance links Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker — and puts US in mortal danger

An arresting image from the last century should haunt us in this one. In November 1940, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to deepen Moscow’s pact with Nazi Germany, supposedly...

How to break Iran’s terrorist regime

“Gradually, then suddenly” could work

The Unrelenting Reality of the Iran War

This is probably Trump’s last chance to show why the regime should fear him.

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, only two months into his term, has a busy month of foreign engagements. In early July, he received the body of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei which was visiting Iraq’s...

The forgotten history of Muslim socialism 

A century of failed experiments before the rise of Mamdani and friends

Is Iran becoming a post-Islamic society?

Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding that has not stopped the exchange of fire in the Gulf but has already produced a renewed and more aggressive repression campaign inside...

For Tehran, negotiation is war by other means

Iran’s rulers think Trump is as beatable as his predecessors

Letter to Melania: Beyond the oil and nukes, you can fight for Iranian women

Dear Mrs. Trump, Or may I call you Melania? If that is too familiar, no problem, I understand. But you can certainly call me Cliff! I am a longtime admirer. I have heard you speak out for human rights,...

An MOU is not a “peace deal”

The Islamic Republic of Iran remains at war with America

Stolen Revolution: Behind Iran’s Protest Movements

Letter to the POTUS

A few hopefully helpful notes on Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionaries”

The Terrorist Threat Washington Isn’t Hearing

Terrorist groups are exploiting music and audio platforms to spread extremist propaganda, exposing dangerous gaps in online content moderation and counterterrorism coordination.

Iran’s New ‘Nuclear’ Weapon

What happens if the U.S. declines to fight for the Strait of Hormuz.

Breaking the Myth of Hezbollah’s Captive Constituency

Israel’s Alma Center is wrong about Lebanon’s Shia population. In a recent article, the institute claimed that Hezbollah’s Shia constituency is a “captive audience” chained by dependency, fear,...