Leadership decapitation has long appealed to outside powers as a shortcut to regime collapse. Remove the figure at the top, ...

That nearly indiscriminate Iranian strategy has, however, had the even greater short-term advantage of disrupting the global oil and financial markets, thereby creating mounting domestic, regional, ...

With the Strait of Hormuz closed and oil production from Iraq’s south in free fall, Baghdad’s failure to maximize the ...

Reports suggest there are disagreements among IRGC operatives working with the Houthis inside Yemen over how to respond.

After months of trying to head off a US-Israeli war with Iran, Turkey now finds itself caught in the middle of it — and ...

The United States and Israel both hope for the grand prize: the emergence of a new regime in Iran to replace the Islamic Republic. For the US, this would close the chapter on a hostile and at times ...

To many observers, these conditions seemed to point to one conclusion: that a prolonged war could bring the system down. But ...

In his first public statements since assuming the role of Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei has vowed vengeance for US-Israeli attacks and to keep the Strait of Hormuz clo ...

Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment as Iran’s new Supreme Leader marks the most consequential political transition in the Islamic Republic in more than three decades. For the first time since the 1979 ...

With Iran’s regional power projection at a point of acute vulnerability, a strategic opening to dislodge it from Lebanon has emerged that the US cannot afford to miss. By dragging Lebanon into war in ...

Dr. Pollack began his career as a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and served twice on the National Security Council, first as Director for Near East and South Asian affairs and then as ...

The Lebanese militia group Hizballah once again plunged Lebanon into a quickly widening cross-border conflict by launching missiles toward Israel in support of its patron, Iran, and declaring its ...