The Albanese government has backed the American strike on Iran, while confirming Australia was not given prior warning.
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What we know about the US and Israel strikes on Iran, which have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei will largely be remembered for the profound weakness his leadership brought the Islamic Republic.
President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolutionary Guards, a former US diplomat says.
The latest attack on Iran goes far beyond previous operations by Israel and the US in both scale and scope. Tehran will likely lean on unconventional warfare as well as its missile stockpile.
It appeared that diplomacy was working, but the strikes by the US and Israel now risk destroying any chance of a peaceful resolution of this crisis.
The attack has come in the middle of talks between Washington and Tehran.
The son of the former shah believes he can bring democracy to Iran. Iranians have heard similar promises before.
The US military buildup in the Middle East is now sufficient for Trump to order military action against Iran at any moment.
Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking is deeply flawed.
The US administration may sense that Iran is weak and ready to do a deal. But negotiations could be undone by intransigent red lines.
Forty years of data suggests atrocities are on the rise globally.
After a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Donald Trump said he wanted talks with Iran to continue.
Diasporas are often treated by media and policymakers as monolithic blocs, but the reality is more complicated.
Diplomacy remains the most preferable option both for Iran and the US as tensions between the two countries rise.
Iran faces a double erasure: violence imposed by a ‘necropolitical’ state and the revival of patriarchal alternatives that promise change while sidelining women.
Iran is struggling with a massive water crisis, this is a global phenomenom.
The Trump administration has called on Iran to permanently end its nuclear program. But threats of force may undermine effort of nonproliferation.
Reporting on Iran’s anti-government protests comes with extraordinary risks and obstacles.
Amin Naeni, an expert on digital authoritarianism, tracks how Iran built the capability to shutdown the internet. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Director, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), Deakin University
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in International Politics, UCL
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Director of Dickinson Program in New Zealand & Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, Dickinson College