A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world. Asharq Al-Awsat, London 16 The images ...
Iran faces significant challenges as its economy struggles and sanctions are reimposed. Despite these pressures, the ...
For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar ...
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Iran...What Lies Beyond the Return to the Past?

UN sanctions have been reinstated and its domestic legitimacy has been eroding. Instead of redefining its relationship with its citizens through genuine economic and political reform, the authorities ...
In another one of their “history and tradition” tests, the justices stand poised to upend laws all across the country.
Before Persia became an empire, it was the land of the Elamites. This episode traces Iran’s early civilizations through the rise of the Achaemenid Empire and its dramatic fall to Alexander the Great — ...
The disastrous 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement led to Iran receiving billions in sanctions relief, which ultimately strengthened its support for terrorist organizations, ...
The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western sanctions, ...
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday to charges accusing the former President Donald Trump national ...
A ceasefire in Gaza has created a hopefully enduring–albeit uneasy–pause in the two-year Israel-Hamas war, with the recent ...
The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in ...
A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, ...