"Today, you can get in a car in Tehran and get out in the Dahia, Beirut." Five years and two months after Gen. Qasem ...

Iran's system allows for elections, but political groups must operate within the strict boundaries of the Islamic Republic. In the 2016 parliamentary elections, nearly half of the candidates were ...

Post-revolutionary Iran often is depicted as a society ... What role does he see for religion in politics? What are his views on the structure and purpose of the clerical establishment?

It was among the lowest ever recorded for a presidential vote in Iran, highlighting the malaise and distrust in the political system overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The US State ...

The United States seems at this moment about to break the record for the worst political blunder of all time, with its Obama-administration deal that will make a nuclear Iran virtually inevitable.

It merits some consideration as to why Iran so escalated its longstanding ... signaled that more serious attacks on America’s political system would merely be absorbed. Perhaps Iran believed ...

It is part of an economy of affect, a symbolic system that assigns specific meanings to certain bodies — both physical and political — determining their place in the world. In the case of Iran, this ...

Israel must strike Iran now, hitting any number of high ... resist an Islamist group’s offensive, the entire political-military structure unraveled. There was no last stand in Damascus.

The 81-year-old is the highest political authority in one of the most powerful countries in the Middle East, and who will succeed him matters greatly to Iran, the region and the rest of the world.

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for ... to their codes of conduct and demonstrate respect for the political structure and legal frameworks of the country concerned.