In the opening scene of the Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent, a dead body lies in front of a gas station in the middle of nowhere. When the police arrive, they are not interested in the body, but ...

The Iranian Royal Family has lived in exile ever since the 1979 revolution that ended their rule. The last monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, died on July 27, 1980 in Cairo at the age of 60. After a ...

There is no single event that would do more to put the whole Middle East on a more decent, inclusive trajectory than the ...

Israeli bombing of Iran comes to a halt, without destroying the state, can the Iranian people sort out their fate.

In September 1996, I visited Tehran, Iran, for the first time. I stayed at the Homa Hotel, formerly a Sheraton. I wrote at the time that fixed above the door ...

While you’d never know it if you listened to the campus left in recent years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been the biggest imperialist power in the region since 1979.

That won’t come down easily. The late 1990s were a fleeting moment of openness in Iran, which is how I got a visa. I was hopeful that the obvious quest then of many of Iran’s young people to join the ...

Using Antonio Gramsci’s ideas of war of manoeuvre and war of position, the escalating confrontation between Iran, Israel and the US reveals how power in the region operates not only through missiles ...

Iranians despised the ayatollah. That doesn’t mean they’ll side with the United States.

Themistocles led the Athenian navy to victory against Persia. When the Athenians voted to ostracize him, he became a Persian governor.

America now resembles the corrupt regimes I spent years observing abroad, where power, money, and loyalty to a single leader have replaced law, accountability, and the democratic balance the Framers ...

The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian ...