During his controversial speech to Congress Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indirectly dismissed the notion that Iran is a "lesser evil" to the Islamic State which can be worked with on an...
March 2015 is seeing the looming prospect of yet more economic sanctions being levelled by the western powers against both Iran and Russia. As of writing the European Union is preparing to introduce...
If (when?) Iran gets the bomb, the following things will happen: Israel’s ability to deter or react to Hezbollah gets tighter; The U.S. will have to balance Israel’s desire for action with China...
And then the conversation turned to the war. The next war. I can’t remember how we rounded that corner, how we hit against that brick wall. It was last Friday, a beautiful evening, and we sat on a...
“No One Knows About Persian Cats” is the fifth feature from Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi (who won the Camera d’Or at Cannes a decade ago for “A Time For Drunken Horses”) – and...
Jeffrey Herf teaches Modern and Contemporary European history at the University of Maryland, College Park. His book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, was published by Yale University Press in late...
Professor Homa Katouzian is an specialist on Iran, teaching at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Trained as an economist, Dr. Katouzian has a broad range of interests...
Though #iranelection no longer tops the Trending Topics sidebar on Twitter, a quick search will show you that the struggle goes on in Iran, and that Twitter is still one of the tools used by...
This Middle Eastern country likes nothing more than to have its back against the wall. Accustomed to having the world against it, the country has dealt with repeated and, at times, legitimate fear of...
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Man to Man psp As things stand, there seems little doubt that Iran will at some point manage to obtain nuclear weapons capability. Even an ostensibly civilian nuclear programme can be...