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Iran has confirmed fresh talks with European powers to be held on Friday in Istanbul, the country's state media has reported, ...
Iran’s armed proxies are ramping up pressure on key points in the Middle East as Tehran attempts to rebuild its regional ...
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What the West misunderstands about Iran
Unless the West begins to understand Iranian history — and the mindset it has created among Iranian leaders — it will continue to misread Tehran’s actions. What often looks like aggression or ...
President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His supporters will tie themselves in knots (as Vice President J. D. Vance did ...
There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we ...
Secretary Rubio and European foreign ministers set an August deadline for Iran's nuclear deal, which could trigger the ...
Last month’s war with Israel and the United States lasted only 12 days, but Iran is likely to feel its consequences for years ...
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has called on Tehran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
Arab governments, especially in the gulf, had once taken a hawkish line toward Iran but now worry U.S. strikes could upend regional stability and hurt business.
Former national security advisor and HKS faculty member Jake Sullivan says negotiations following the Iran strikes are key ...
Iran and the United States have not had formal diplomatic relations since the birth of the Islamic Republic in 1979, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a photograph released by state news. He said that he could endorse a deal with the United States if Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is kept intact.