President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the US military ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Any discussion of the Iranian regime—whether diplomatic, strategic, or military—usually begins with its external threats: nuclear enrichment, missile development, regional proxies and the danger these ...

Over the last few weeks, the Iranian regime has faced remarkable challenges—and displayed remarkable unity. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the Islamic Republic ...

President Donald Trump has escalated his threats to use military force amid Iran’s violent crackdowns on protests, which have killed as many as 20,000 Iranians. In recent days, he has called for ...

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Regime change are dirty words in American politics. Even politicians who are defending wars abroad insist that "regime change" isn't the goal. Looming over the conversation is the Iraq War, the Bush ...

The Iranian regime may have crushed the latest round of protests in its streets, but the Islamic Republic’s long-term leadership remains far from resolved. Whether by overthrow or old age, Supreme ...

President Donald Trump responded to a series of inflammatory social media posts by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday, after the Ayatollah blamed the United States for deadly protests ...

An Editor at Large: ‘It’s a bit like Gaza,’ says a BBC journalist, in what is an unintentionally revealing remark. Photo: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images/Dinendra Haria/Zuma Press Long before Iran’s regime ...

“Help is on its way,” Donald Trump told the people of Iran on Tuesday as he urged them to keep protesting and “take over your institutions”. The US president had earlier declared that America was ...

WHEN PROTESTERS took to the bazaars and streets of Iran, the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, met them with bullets. After two weeks of chants of “death to the dictator”, militiamen allied with the ...