Iran

Ebrahim Raisi was — and remains — Iran’s hanging judge

Iran’s president-elect is what Hannah Arendt would have called a schreibtischtäter, a ‘desk murderer’

The kabuki theater of America’s armed engagement in the region is undeniable

How Netanyahu might gamble on the ‘line from Auschwitz to Natanz’

Talking policy, paradigms and turning Trump’s instincts into reality

Trump is bringing major changes to the Middle East

For the left to be right at all costs, the right must be wrong about everything

American policy has become decoupled from American national interests

Tehran’s virus troubles could allow Shia militias to attack US forces in Iraq

The Tehran students were chanting in the streets: ‘Our enemy is right here, they’re lying that it’s America’

The democracy junkies are at it again — craving another fantasy revolution in a country they don’t understand

On every count, other than creating permanent war, the Bush Doctrine failed