"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 ...

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 ...

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?

Iran’s Domestic Politics. Iran’s authoritarian political system appears relatively stable but has experienced stresses since its founding in 1979, including large-scale protest movements.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Weeks before Trump's inauguration, Iran is preparing for potential threats to its nuclear facilities – and for the possible domestic reaction.

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.