Regime Change
Trump Could Still Decide to Win the War, Though He Would Need to Defy Opponents from Both Ends of the Spectrum
Ehsan Khandouzi Has Qualities That May Matter More in Tehran than an Ability to Understand Economics
The Regime Has Compiled a List of More than 100 Diaspora Members Who Will Be Allowed to Return to Iran
The Most Conservative Hardliners Worry That the Regime Is Losing Its Islamic Posture
Officials Have Not Said Why a Will Hasn’t Been Made Public, Claiming His Sons Have It, but It’s Unlikely There’s Only One Copy
Iran So Far Has Adapted to the Conditions the United States Has Imposed on It
Each Time Pressure Builds for Proof That He Is Alive, the Regime Produces Another Proof-of-Life Claim
The Islamic Republic Will Worry When It No Longer Can Pay Its Security Forces
Six Appointments Show an Architecture Built Around Institutional Memory, Loyalty, and Coercive Power Is Taking Place
Zolghadr Had Ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but Was Primarily Involved with Domestic Suppression
If the World Withdraws, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Will Consider It a Green Light to Purge Those Who Resist Its Vision
Iran Appears Confident That It Can Survive and Is Conducting Aggressive Diplomacy to Fend off Attacks on Infrastructure
The Regime Claims Its ‘Deep Mistrust’ of the United States Stems from a Long History of American ‘Wrongdoing’
The Regime Media Continue to Portray the Current Phase of the War as Unprovoked, Omitting Iran’s Assaults on Shipping
Araghchi Claims That the War Occurred Because Tehran Refused Concessions That Would Limit Uranium Enrichment
The Daily Reality Confronting Ordinary Iranians Stands in Stark Contrast to the Rhetoric of Regime Officials
The Former President’s Remarks Suggest the Degree to Which Control Is Fracturing in the Islamic Republic
In Southern Iranian Cities, Temperatures Will Climb to 122°F, Yet the Headlines Across Iran’s State Media Ignore the Electricity Crisis
President Trump Should Not Treat a New Iraqi Prime Minister as Proof That Iraq’s Balance of Power Has Changed
In U.S. Hands, Qeshm Would Flip the Script—Iran No Longer Could Easily Target the Strait of Hormuz