President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His supporters will tie themselves in knots (as Vice President J. D. Vance did ...

Iran’s armed proxies are ramping up pressure on key points in the Middle East as Tehran attempts to rebuild its regional ...

The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into a full-scale regional war, but it ...

Last month’s war with Israel and the United States lasted only 12 days, but Iran is likely to feel its consequences for years ...

There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we ...

Former national security advisor and HKS faculty member Jake Sullivan says negotiations following the Iran strikes are key ...

Secretary Rubio and European foreign ministers set an August deadline for Iran's nuclear deal, which could trigger the ...

Why did Trump bomb iran? Why is the U.S. helping Israel? The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations ...

Iran lashed out at the United States for crossing "a very big red line" with its risky tactic of attacking the three nuclear facilities with missiles and 15,000-kilo bombs in its so-called ...

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has called on Tehran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency ...

Iran and the United States have not had formal diplomatic relations since the birth of the Islamic Republic in 1979, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a photograph released by state news. He said that he could endorse a deal with the United States if Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is kept intact.