Compared to what happened in other "Arab Spring" countries, what is unfolding in Syria may appear reassuring. But the Iranian elephant is a big one.

I]t is the tiny nation of Israel that has found itself largely alone in the desperate fight to preserve the West's Judeo-Christian ideals. It would be to the West's advantage if its other nations wou ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Italian ambassador over the arrest of Mohammad Abedini, who is wanted by the ...

It was only a small victory, because Pezeshkian is very timid (otherwise he wouldn’t have been allowed even to run), but more importantly because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been the ...

Baathist Syria was Iran’s oldest ally in the Arab world, a relationship forged by Hafez al-Assad with Ayatollah Khomeini in a bid to end his diplomatic isolation after ... and ethno-religious ...

Six months ago, at the end of Iran's presidential election, I finished an article by speculating that the long-lived theocratic dictatorship in Iran may be a lot closer to its end than its beginning: ...

Six months ago, at the end of Iran’s presidential election, I finished an article by speculating that the long-lived ...

Amid pressure from several religious groups and politicians, India under Rajiv Gandhi had been the first country to ban ‘The ...

I had previously questioned the depth of Tehran’s relationship with Bashar al-Assad, as he considered it his pillar of ...

Carter's troubled one-term presidency helped change the historical course of Iran and precipitated the right-wing turn of the ...

Holding separate sessions with ambassadors of Turkey and Tajikistan to Tehran on Sunday, Education Minister Alireza Kazemi ...

Six months ago, at the end of Iran’s presidential election, I finished an article by speculating that the long-lived ...