He was the 21st century’s most accomplished military leader—and a deeply spiritual man. Before they killed him, they didn’t even want you to know his...
Iraq and the Iraqis have spoken: Iraqi Major General Jafar al-Battat, head of Baghdad area security, estimated at “more than one million” the number of protestors who...
In July 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to Iran. On the day he was due to fly home, he was detained
The US President Donald Trump first said there were ‘no casualties’ in the Iranian missile attack on the Ain al-Asad military airbase in Iraq on...
Millions of Iraqi people, who gathered in Baghdad on Friday, urged the U.S. troops to leave their homeland otherwise they will face another Vietnam war,...
The Dutch disease is when a government earns lots of easy foreign currency from oil exports and the economic and political disruption it causes to...
This commentary is in response to the must-read article by Jim Kavanagh, “Aftermath: The Iran War after the Soleimani Assassination”, which ends as follows: This is...
The Iraqi Parliament has decided to ask for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces from the country for violating the terms of their presence....
Starting from the presidency of George W. Bush to that of Trump, the U.S. has made some missteps that not only reduce its influence in...
Something big and unprecedented has happened in the Middle East after the assassination of one of Iran’s top commanders, Qasim Suleimani. The U.S. has long...
Nobody has escaped the news of the so-called “popular demonstrations” in Iran during the recent days. Hundreds of thousands of articles, updates and tweets have...
There has been a catastrophic drop in living standards, and the deterioration in public health warrants immediate action by the international community.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to destroy the nuclear agreement with Iran. He has threatened the EU-3 poodles in Germany, Britain and France with a 25%...
Party leaders did not challenge the president’s decision to once again have the U.S. dictate behavior to the rest of the world, writes Jeff Faux. Democrats scold and scorn Trump for his...
Not since the 1930s has European appeasement been seen to be so cowardly, so cynical and ultimately so recklessly leading to greater escalation and war....
There was the time that Iran pursued a secret nuclear-weapons program with North Korea and possibly facilitated the killing of dozens of people at CIA headquarters. There was the 1979...
As recently profiled by The Nation, "The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) militaristic influence on US policy toward Iran is working. Suleimani’s assassination...
The death of Qaboos bin Said, the sultan of Oman, last week marked the departure of Iran’s closest ally in the Persian Gulf, whose mediation with the United States had...
The Raging Twenties started with a bang with the targeted assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani. Yet a bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade:...
Episode Description: This week, Reza breaks down the Trump administration's shifting rationale for killing Qassem Soleimani, the questions that regime change advocates are never forced...
There is a scene in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park (2010) where on New Year’s Eve the acclaimed publisher, Morris Heller asks himself how many dead bodies he...
The Donald Trump administration is ramping up its information war against Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. And it has enlisted social media platforms as weapons in...
"Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, historian and Middle East expert, Stephen Kinzer substantive discussion in New Hampshire moderated by Professor Lawrence Lessig on foreign...
Sanders has often led the way against conflict with Iran — frequently as a lonely yet strikingly consistent voice in the early years of the Trump administration.
Protests erupted in Iran soon after the government admitted to having accidentally shot down a passenger plane killing 176 people. That disaster took place amid escalating tensions with the US...
Esmail Qaani, the man appointed by Iran to succeed the charismatic Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, is expected to bring his experience in cultivating regional militias to the IRGC’s external...
Despite claiming to support the nuclear deal the EU-3 always searched for ways to put more restrictions on Iran, especially on its ballistic missile program. In May...
If one seriously seeks to understand how delusional policymakers in Washington are it is only necessary to examine the responses by the president and Congress...
While an eerie, surreal calm has fallen over US-Iranian relations, I wouldn’t assume we’re out of the woods yet. Trump had no reason to be confident that...
[The following statement was issued by a group of students at Amir Kabir (Polytechnic) University in Tehran, protesting an admission of guilt by the Iranian...
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