The US has imposed new sanctions against Iran’s top leaders, but its foreign policy has no clear focus.
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A showdown with Iran over some oil tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf could push the US into its next Mideast war, writes a scholar of military aggression.
Both Iran and the US say they are not seeking a war, but it could happen by default.
Reformers have tried to modernise Iran for decades but have failed mainly due to the country’s powerful theocracy. And then there are those who want to overthrow the regime altogether.
Iran has threatened to shut down this narrow seaway. Here’s why that could be a big deal.
Recent protests in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar are part of a long reform movement, not a new revolution.
Seven world leaders with axes to grind are preparing to sit round one table. Sparks will fly.
The recent parliamentary election in Iraqi may have been the most transformative of the post-Saddam era, a pollster from Baghdad and an American academic explain.
It would be a heavy lift, but revising the Iran nuclear deal would have some significant upsides, according to scholars at the University of Maryland.
The Iran nuclear deal will struggle to survive the damage done when Trump pulled the US out on May 8. So will US-Europe relations.
Just as Iran’s centre ground was collapsing under political pressure, Donald Trump offered the hardliners a gift.
To understand how Syria has become the theatre for proxy wars between international forces, one has to return to the Arab uprisings and Syria’s role as an outlier.
It largely depends on whether Europe will decide to ignore (and pay the price for) US sanctions.
Does the work of the international agency responsible for verifying whether Iran was in compliance with the deal matter to the US?
Ever since the shocking spectacle of the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, American conservatives have reserved a special disdain for the Islamic Republic.
Iran is a dangerous mischief-maker in the Middle East – but scrapping the nuclear deal will probably make things worse.
A mummy unearthed during construction in Iran may be the body of a former shah. For the Islamic regime, the discovery is an unwelcome reminder of Iran’s secular past. For protesters, it holds promise.
Israel’s prime minister failed to undermine the validity of Iran’s nuclear deal, and instead ended up demonstrating just how important it is.
The new secretary of state once called the Iran nuclear deal ‘unconscionable.’ If he supports Trump’s instinct to scrap the agreement on May 12, it could unleash violence across the volatile Mideast.
Reportedly passed over for secretary of state because of his moustache, John Bolton has made it into Donald Trump’s administration at last.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Director, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), Deakin University
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland
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Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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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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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill