Regional Relations: Al Jazeera
With tension in the Middle East at its highest since October 7, how did we get here and what could happen next? Read more…
President Ebrahim Raisi's Death: Al Jazeera
The deaths of the president and other officials in a helicopter crash are not likely to lead to major policy changes. Read more…
Iran Protests: Danish Broadcasting Corporation
The appeals of Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom are still just below the surface. The streets may be relatively quiet, however, that does not mean the people have forgotten or given up on their demands. Read more…
Iran Protests: The Irish Examiner
An Iranian government spokesman announced that the morality police had been abolished. However, laws about how women must dress remain the same as before the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. Read more…
Iran Protests: Time
In the aftermath of Mahsa Amini’s death under Iran’s state custody, protests have erupted across university campuses in the country, giving a new energy to the weeks-long protests. Read more…
Iran Protests: The New York Times
Universities across Iran have erupted in protests after more than decade of being politically dormant, with students joining the unrest that has convulsed the country for the past three weeks. Read more…
Iran Protests: The New York Times
Protests erupted in more than 80 cities across Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini after her detention by the morality police under the so-called hijab law. Read more…
Iran's Presidential Election: L'Orient-Le Jour
The victory of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s presidential election presents major challenges for the country’s moderate and reformist factions. Read more…
Ukrainian Plane Tragedy: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Iran’s unintentional downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane has invoked memories of a similar tragedy: the 1988 U.S. shoot-down of an Iranian plane over the Strait of Hormuz. Read more…
Iranophobia: Al Jazeera
Amid US-Iran tensions, many Iranian Americans fear they will face increased discrimination. Some already have. Read more…
Iran Protests: The Washington Post
For a brief moment this month, Iran's rulers appeared buoyed by the wave of nationalist sentiment that swept the country after the U.S. killing of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Read more…
Remembering Iran Air Flight 655: TRT World
One of the world's most important shipping routes, the strait was also witness to one of the world’s deadliest aviation disasters. Read more…
Strait of Hormuz: Los Angeles Times
The seizure of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran’s IRGC is the latest example of how tensions between the U.S. and Iran have spilled into one of the world’s most strategic and vital waterways for oil. Read More…
Remembering Iran Air Flight 655: Newsweek
The rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran in the last month have invoked memories of a deadlier time in the two rivals' troubled history three decades ago when the U.S. killed nearly 300 Iranian civilians. Read more…
Government Accountability: The Washington Post
The dire economic conditions in Iran have bred extraordinary resentment toward corruption, nepotism, and the children of the elite who seem immune to the country’s topsy-turvy realities. Read more…
Nuclear Deal: The Washington Post
The Iranian president’s signature achievement, a landmark nuclear deal with world powers, is starting to unravel, and his economy is in distress even before renewed U.S. sanctions begin to bite. Read more...
Nuclear Deal: The Washington Post
President Trump’s decision to abandon a nuclear deal with Iran has intensified a heated debate among Iranians over relations with the West, pitting proponents of the landmark accord and of diplomacy more generally against staunch conservatives who urge a harsh response to the move. Read more...
Nuclear Deal: Newsweek
Trump's recent decision to renew the landmark Iran nuclear deal signed by his predecessor...eased international anxieties about diplomatic crises that could swiftly lead to major escalations—but substantial risks lie ahead. Read more...
Sanctions: The Washington Post
Once a ragtag force protecting Iran's nascent Islamic regime, the Revolutionary Guard Corps is now the nation's most powerful security institution. Read more...
Regional Relations: The Washington Post
It was nearly two years ago when Iran and Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties...but this year, a rare bright spot in their relations has stirred hope of a possible detente. Read more...
Iran's Presidential Election: Los Angeles Times
As Iranians prepare to head to the polls Friday to cast their vote for president, the political climate in the nation is heating up. Read more...
Iran's Presidential Election: The Washington Post
Iran’s moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, has delivered rare rebukes in recent days to the country’s powerful Shiite clergy and allied security forces, lashing out at rivals and their hard-line backers ahead of his reelection bid next week. Read more...
Iran's Presidential Election: The Washington Post
Just a few days ago, hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi was the contender to watch in the race to unseat Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. By the weekend, his candidacy was already in doubt. Read more...
Sanctions: CBS MoneyWatch
Iran this week welcomed the lifting of international sanctions against it, but that doesn't mean, say, the Golden Arches will be lining the streets of Tehran anytime soon. Read more...
Sanctions: Deutsche Welle
A US bill extending sanctions on Iran gives Trump a tool to ratchet up pressure, but that might strengthen hardliners in Tehran. Iran has already upped its rhetoric ahead of elections next year. Read more...