Analysis of the 12-day Israel-Iran war, its impact on Iran's strategic choices, and the future of regional security.

Iran’s politicized court system has a central role in public discontent with the Islamic Republic’s clerical elite.

Former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi died in a 2024 helicopter crash in a remote, fog-shrouded mountainside, but Philippine posts falsely claimed the fatal incident happened amid Iran's most ...

A new, White House-provided portrait of President Donald Trump will soon hang in the Colorado State Capitol after an earlier painting was removed following a complaint by Trump.

Iran’s former President Ebrahim Raisi appeared likely to succeed Khamenei before dying in a helicopter crash May 2024, according to the outlet.

The conditions that led to this war would almost certainly not have arisen without Trump’s mishandling of Iran policy in his first administration.

Drones, defence and diplomacy Just days before he died in an Israeli strike, Iranian armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri said the country’s weapons exports had “increased substantially” under ...

Though this particular portrait of Donald Trump was indeed on display in that exact spot in the White House as of this writing, its placement there predated the removal of Hillary Clinton's portrait.

Khandouzi was economy minister until the summer of last year in the cabinet of late President Ebrahim Raisi and remains close to the Iranian establishment's hardliners.

Khamenei is 86 years old, and it is not fully clear who his successor will be. One possible contender, hardliner and former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash last year.

National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is resigning from her post two weeks after President Trump tried to fire her and accused her of being “highly partisan” and supportive of diversity ...

In July 2023, then-President Ebrahim Raisi – who died in a helicopter crash in May 2024 – embarked on a three-country tour of Africa, marking Tehran’s most serious diplomatic push on the continent in ...