Iran

Financial wars damage and disfigure economies as much as military ones. Countries ravaged by sanctions need reconstruction, too.

FP’s latest on the turmoil in Sudan, Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election, and Julian Assange’s arrest.

The Trump administration has labeled Iran’s most powerful military branch a terrorist organization—and put Americans around the world in danger.

By designating the IRGC a terrorist group, Trump has put the heat on the United States’ one potential ally in Tehran.

Veteran diplomat William Burns on the U.S. president, Putin, Iraq, and the “militarization” of American diplomacy.

India's newly aggressive strategy puts Gulf money and Israeli weapons first.

Pro-Iran factions are pushing for the move just as the Islamic State is starting to hit back.

Tehran’s military is advancing ever farther into outer space—and the threat is bigger than Washington is letting on.

A U.S. withdrawal has opened the door to a possible political settlement, but success will depend on regional powers and the country’s neighbors.

This week, the world marked International Women’s Day, and the U.S. State Department canceled an award for a Finnish journalist who criticized Trump.

While Western activists defend the right of Muslims to wear the veil, Iranian women are fighting for a bigger cause: choice.

Trump’s favorite foreign-policy doctrine has failed.

Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif protested his weakness—and became stronger than ever.

Javad Zarif’s gambit paid off, but his attempt to be a bridge between Tehran and the West has become virtually impossible in the Trump era.

The foreign minister’s fall from grace was a long time coming.

If accepted, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s resignation may open the door to a new Iranian radicalism.

The Islamic Republic’s corruption is draining the country of its most precious resource: water.

The kolbars brave subfreezing temperatures and border guards’ bullets to carry heavy loads over the mountains in an unemployment-plagued region that Iran’s government has all but forgotten.

Riyadh’s reckless behavior foments widespread mistrust of its plans to buy nuclear reactors.

The march to war against Iran is echoing the drumbeats of America's last major Middle Eastern invasion.