With every new wave of protest, every strike, and every act of civil disobedience, Tehran's response is not reform, but ...

Petra Costa's sobering documentary examines the rise of right-wing evangelical Christianity in Brazilian politics ...

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 ...

Reports suggest that Mossad conducted synchronized espionage, intelligence, and military operations with precise targeting in ...

Kudos to President Trump, for taking the recent bold, but responsible action, to hopefully prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons.

Iran-watchers believe that there is an almost unprecedented window of opportunity following the series of critical setbacks ...

Even if there is a regime change in Iran, no new government there will survive unless it sustains and perhaps surpasses the current leadership's belligerence.

Interview by Vazha Tavberidze In this interview with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service, Robert Gevondyan, a political analyst and ...

China is planning for the death of the globally admired spiritual leader. The United States should prepare as well.

For more than 50 years, the Pahlavi dynasty had ruled Iran with increasing ruthlessness. The poor, religious Iranians struggling in the teeming slums, seethed. They saw the Shah and his family as ...

Iranian-American expert believes that the era of Tehran's influence in the region has ended. Head of the Iranian Studies department at Stanford University in California, his biography of the last ...

The reality is that nationalism, not theocracy, remains what what the historian Ali Ansari ... Nearly 50 years into an unwanted dictatorship, Iranians have developed a refined capacity for identifying ...