Like two centuries ago, Tehran is caught between two competing powers: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the West, led by the U.S.

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, ...

The U.S. aerial strike against Iran was conducted under such unique circumstances that it offers as many questions as lessons. The Israeli air campaign, conducted exclusively with fighter jets, had so ...

The international sanctions and the internal economic concerns have influenced Iran to change its stance towards the Afghan ...

Russia is mediating between Iran and Israel while Donald Trump tries to remake the Middle East with the US-backed Gaza peace ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is warning of a “heightened threat environment” following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, the deputy FBI director says the bureau’s “assets ...

The East has long been the cradle of civilization. It is a region of immense potential, steeped in culture, history, and innovation. For centuries, it was the world’s locomotive, a hub of economic ...

Three years ago, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini was fatally beaten by Iran’s morality police. She’d been ...

United States-Iran tensions have surged to the highest point in decades after President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered direct strikes that he said “obliterated” key nuclear facilities across the ...

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 ...

Iran has been working with the US on a deal to remove the Iranian nationals through its US Interests Section at the Pakistani ...