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Reuters The High-Stakes Confrontation Between Trump and Khamenei
Neither leader appears to want escalating conflict—yet that’s precisely where things seem to be headed.
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Bria Webb / Reuters The Return of Iranian Hard-Liners’ Favorite Moderate
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif charms Western diplomats, while protecting the theocracy in Tehran.
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Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader / AP How Trump Could Revive the Iranian Regime
A policy seemingly aimed at bringing about the collapse of the government could backfire.
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Louai Barsha / AFP / Getty Iran's Real Enemy in Syria
At a time of economic hardship, Tehran has provided billions of dollars to help Assad crush Islamist rebels. The question is why.
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AP The Battle for Iran
Change will not come easily, peacefully, or soon.
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Reuters Maximum Drama, Minimum Change: Iran's Presidential Elections
“Regardless of who wins the majority of votes,” the supreme leader said recently, “the main winner is the regime of the Islamic Republic.”
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Reuters How America Could Stumble Into War With Iran
A major conflagration, whether intentional or not, is perhaps likelier now than ever.
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Vahid Salemi / AP Sons of the Iranian Revolution
Rafsanjani, Khamenei, and the friendship-cum-rivalry that shaped a country
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Caren Firouz / Reuters Trump, the Autocrat's Preferred Choice
People who’ve fled authoritarianism in Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, are what make America great.
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Wikimedia Commons The Neuroscience Guide to Negotiations With Iran
Wondering whether the historic nuclear talks will succeed or fail? Study the brain.
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Christopher Hitchens the Conversationalist
Remembering drinks and chats with the public intellectual
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Will Fukushima Force Iran to Reconsider Nuclear Program?
The country's rogue energy program isn't worth the humanitarian danger, the economic cost, or whatever scant power it might provide
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5 Minutes With Benjamin Netanyahu
If I had just that much time with the Israeli prime minister, here are the five points I'd make to him about the Iranian threat
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Attacking Iran: The Last Thing the U.S. Administration Wants to Do
A response to Elliott Abrams
