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Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty; The Atlantic Iran Stops Pretending
The rigged “election” of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s next president has the potential to be a turning point for the country. But its significance will be fully understood only in hindsight.
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CARLOS BARRIA / AFP / GETTY How to Win the Cold War With Iran
The Islamic Republic needs America as an enemy. America needs a strategy.
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Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP The Iranian Hedgehog vs. the American Fox
The escalation between the two countries is being driven by the clashing temperaments of their leaders.
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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
