With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

Iran has rejected multifront nuclear pressure from the United States and European countries amid sanctions threats.

Cyrus the Great, who reigned in the 6th century BCE, is not merely a figure of Iranian pride. He is a towering symbol of ...

One month after Israeli strikes cripple Iranian air defenses, Khamenei turns to old playbook with new power center. It took ...

In the wake of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, Tehran has created a new “Defense Council,” the Islamic Revolutionary ...

Iranian media claimed Mossad had promised the scientist a foreign passport should he complete a long-term collaboration, after meeting five times in Vienna. Rouzbeh Vadi, who state media said was ...

Following the 12-day conflict with Israel, Tehran is confronting a lot of difficult issues that could determine the future of ...

Pegah Banihashemi A few weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, several published statements have called for a referendum and a transition beyond the Islamic Republic. One of these, signed ...

Officials in the Islamic republic are seeking to rally a population rattled by war and increasingly averse to the Muslim ...

Rouzbeh Vadi, who state media said was executed on Wednesday for giving information on Iran's nuclear programme to Israel's Mossad spy agency, was himself a nuclear scientist, state broadcaster IRIB ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to the supreme leader, as secretary of the ...

For decades, Iran has been an adversary of the United States. Scott Anderson examines the Iranian revolution of 1979, the upheaval that deposed the reigning monarch and transformed the country from a ...