Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela should care more about the US invasion and capture of President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
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Angered not just by social crises, Iranians are asking fundamental questions about the costs and sacrifices demanded by the Islamic Republic’s ruling ideology.
Iran’s leaders are more vulnerable than ever. Yet, they still have many tools of repression at their disposal.
With Trump’s immigration crackdown intensifying, what factors are prompting people to leave their countries?
North Korea was behind a $1.5 billion digital bank heist in February 2025. Other countries are similarly stealing crypto to fund nefarious activities.
Using ‘axis’ to describe a grouping of countries tends to link them to a sordid past – but not always.
Schools are closing and hospitals are admitting patients suffering from lung diseases as Tehran and other Iranian cities face a severe air pollution crisis.
Iran has sought to bolster its economic and security relationships on the continent after a punishing year both at home and in the Middle East.
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.
Armed drones are increasingly being seen as a solution to security challenges in African conflicts.
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come from? And why now?
Iranian authorities brutally suppressed the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, but women in Iran and the diaspora are continuing the fight in small but meaningful ways.
Tehran is facing its worst water shortages for ten years, but there is little reporting on it outside Iran.
The impact of the October 7 attacks and Israel’s response will reverberate for decades to come.
Mariam Rahmani’s witty debut novel, Liquid, set between the US and Tehran, is a rom com for the age of precarity.
The region’s authoritarian leaders have been buoyed by the loss of Iranian power. But such victories mask a region that is still very much beset by danger.
Iran has a well-established pattern of targeting dissidents and Jewish institutions. It’s now arrived on Australian shores.
The organisation behind antisemitic arson attacks in Australia is now considered a terrorist group. Here’s how the enormously powerful group operates.
Australia’s accusations against the IRGC will likely add momentum to the push for broader Western alignment against Iran.
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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