Before Persia became an empire, it was the land of the Elamites. This episode traces Iran’s early civilizations through the ...

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

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 East has long been the cradle of civilization. It is a region of immense potential, steeped in culture, history, and ...

Iranians protest the U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities in Tehran on June 22, 2025. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images Additional unpredictability can be seen in a weakened Iran ...

The United States' relationship with Iran is marked by a complex history of conflict. The recent U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear sites, prompting Iran to retaliate, is just the most recent incident of a ...

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

The foreign ministers of Iran and Poland exchanged pleasantries in Polish over Radoslaw Sikorski's participation in Radoslaw ...

Democrats bashing President Trump for striking Iran without congressional consent are bumping into an inconvenient history: Democratic presidents have done the same thing for decades. From Bill ...

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