As Iranians come to grips with the reality of life under lingering threats by the United States and Israel, southern Iran's strained resources may fail to withstand a naval blockade, increasing water stress, electricity blackouts, and disrupted livelihoods that were dependent on coastal trade.
Mystery continues to swirl around Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and he hasn't commented on the country's most important developments for months now. His relationship with a former cultural advisor, Mohammad Ali Ramin, helps explain his metamorphosis
The current imbroglio caused by the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran is the culmination of decades of fearmongering by the "experts" about an exceptional Iranian threat, one that purportedly demanded nothing less than all-out war.
Half a century has passed since an Iranian-American historian interrupted his studies in Los Angeles to join a revolution that he believed would reshape his country. The spirit that drove him to the streets of Tehran is now tempered by caution about how a revolution can go awry.
Iran’s newsrooms, broadcasting studios, publishing houses, and adjacent businesses such as bookstores have suffered serious damage due to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign, worsening the working conditions for journalists in an already restrictive environment
Richard Nelson Frye devoted his life to Persian history and asked to be buried in Isfahan, but Iran’s hard-liners refused. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, his story offers a parable of a relationship surrendered to hard-liners.
From toxic acid rain blanketing Tehran after Israel bombed the Iranian capital’s oil depots to the emission of a substantial volume of greenhouse gases in the early phases of the campaign, the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran has caused serious environmental degradation in the country
Leaders and institutions that have expressed solidarity with Iranians can translate their words into action by empowering Iran's academic community and extricating Iranian students and scholars from decades of involuntary isolation. Intellectual life cannot indefinitely remain constricted by sanctions, threats and wars
For the first time, Iranian-born journalists were denied entry to the United States to cover the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The travel restrictions affecting nationals of Iran were not eased by the Trump administration to allow Iranian reporters equal access to the world's most important soccer event.
There is a lesson in Donald Trump dismissing Iranian and Venezuelan exiled opposition leaders after completing his military intervention in the two countries. The superpower that borrows your moral authority may not share your democratic ambitions. It may only need your story long enough to justify its own.
