Robin Wright

For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond. “We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared, in 1980, after ousting the last of […]

The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, was ashen-faced in Doha, on December 7th, as he met with envoys from Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Qatar to confer about Syria. Rebels were on the doorstep of Damascus just

Almost two decades ago, a classified analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency warned that global terrorist attacks masterminded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, would continue—even if he were captured or killed. “Network has proven

Hassan Nasrallah, the iconic leader of Hezbollah who captivated many in the Arab world with his charismatic oratory, was killed on Friday in an Israeli attack on Beirut. At the apex of his career, the cleric was so popular that

Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon who emerged from political backwoods this summer to beat a slew of hard-liners and become President of Iran, walked into the ornate ballroom of a New York hotel this week to meet the press. It