Iran
Too Many Self-Proclaimed Leaders Have Become Commentators, Recycling Talking Points Instead of Organizing Networks Inside Iran
Officials Claim Readiness for Nuclear Negotiations, but Their Conditions Remain Far from What Washington or Jerusalem Would Accept
The Regime’s Influential Ayatollahs Issue Serious Threats in Their Religious Decrees That Can Retain Their Potency
The Government Is Reducing Fuel Quotas and Is Considering Digital Fuel Cards, Tiered Pricing, and Energy Coupons
Each Group Should Reveal Their Expenditures and Sources of Income
The Israeli Government and Military Have Issued No Official Statement, Allowing Tehran’s Disinformation Campaign to Flourish
The Real Reason Relates to the Largely Unknown Security Measures That the Regime Preemptively Activated the Moment That Israel’s Operations Started
Contrary to What Some Academics and Journalists Claim, the Root of the Conflict Is Explained by Long-Standing Israeli Concerns
The Islamic Republic’s Leaders Have Turned Nationalist Following Their Crushing Defeat by Israel Last Month
Many American Policymakers Who Engage the Group Do So for Money, but Bear No Special Fealty to the Mojahedin
Khamenei May Wish to Emerge and Deliver His Usual Rhetoric in Public, but Other Senior Figures May Prefer to Keep Him Away
It’s Unclear Whether New Memorandums with Washington Will Prompt Abu Dhabi to Lessen Trade with Tehran
Proxy Militias, Smugglers, and Others Are the Operational Arm of the Iranian Threat and Disarming Them Is Non-negotiable
Rarely Does Anyone Mention Just How Crazy It Is That the Islamic Republic of Iran Exists Almost Exclusively to Destroy Israel and the U.S.
A Mass Deportation and Intensified Anti-Afghan Sentiment Are Placing Afghans in Iran in Peril
The IDF Ran Circles Around Hezbollah and Seriously Damaged Iran 1,000 Miles Away; Why the Struggle Against a Far Weaker Hamas?
The Flaw in Soleimani’s Plan Seems to Be That He Assumed That Religious and Ideological Loyalties Would Win Out over Local Self-Interest
Iranian Analysts and Journalists Are Uncertain Whether Khamenei Remains in Control of the Situation
The Greatest Problem Right Now Is Not What Happened to the Facilities at Fordow but What Escaped Them