The US-Israeli war against Iran appears to be entering a new cycle of escalation.
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Our team of researchers travelled through some of Syria’s devastated cities to find out how people are rebuilding their lives after the civil war.
Iran’s team faces a hostile reception from the US government and some of its brethren in the diaspora. Yet others hope the event will trump politics — for now.
These groundbreaking films by Iranian women directors explain the deep-rooted origins of the Iranian feminist movement.
Military might is not enough to win a war when the objectives aren’t clear.
The US and Israel believed that military superiority would be enough to humble Iran. It looks as if they were wrong.
Knowing what comes next in Operation Epic Fury is better understood by grasping the evolution of Iran’s military structure and capabilities.
Once a strong force after the Iranian Revolution, the office of the president slowly diminished over time as power centralized under the supreme leader.
The Israeli prime minister’s chances of re-election are likely to hang on the outcomes of the war against Iran.
Donald Trump’s revival of a ‘roadmap’ to peace dismissed by Iran in 2025 suggests he is looking for a way out of an increasingly unwinnable war.
Despite the bellicose rhetoric, Washington must realise the folly of another protracted conflict in the Middle East.
Iran’s young population is educated and connected to the world: even state violence cannot deny their freedom in the long run.
The US president promised Iranian protesters that ‘help is on its way’. It wasn’t.
The Islamic Republic appears to have survived another existential crisis. Scott Lucas addresses the key issues and considers the future for Iran.
A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.
Following the 12-day conflict with Israel, Tehran is confronting a lot of difficult issues that could determine the future of its current system of government.
Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu talked of regime change in Iran. Instead they may have left the Islamic Republic stronger.
The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.
Masoud Pezeshkian wants to reopen dialogue with the west and improve rights for women. The regime may even allow him to do some of that.
The late President Ebrahim Raisi was supposedly being groomed to succeed an aging Ali Khamenei. The succession is a complex process, more dependent on politics than religion.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Graduate Teaching Associate, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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PhD candidate, Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
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Philosophy Tutor, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor, Public Law and Governance, Tilburg University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Reader in International Development, University of Westminster
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Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester
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Ph.D. Researcher, International Security and Foreign Policy, Virginia Tech