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The Making of Modern Iran
Eli Lake dives into the paradox at the heart of Iranian history: how a country that has revolted time and again always ends up governed by kings.
Eli Lake
1HR 8M
The Iranian Opposition Faces Its Darkest Hour
Iran’s brutal regime has arrested hundreds of political opponents—real and imagined—and the worst is likely yet to come.
Jay Solomon
5M
The Iran Strikes and the Trump Doctrine
Donald Trump isn’t a ‘neocon’ or an ‘isolationist.’ He’s a nationalist.
Yoram Hazony
At the Symbol of Israeli Science, a Cost Too Vast to Calculate
Israelis are emerging from the shelters to assess the damage of 12 days of war. At the Weizmann Institute, the cost is impossible to measure.
Matti Friedman
Our Picks of the Week: War, Peace, and TikTok Jacobins
The aftermath of the strikes in Iran. A socialist rises in New York. And much more.
The Editors
Was Iran’s Nuclear Program ‘Obliterated’—or Just Set Back a Few Months?
A leaked preliminary report suggested that U.S. and Israeli strikes had delivered only modest results. Other agencies and experts paint a very different…
Jay Solomon
They Predicted World War III. They Were Wrong.
Tucker Carlson and his allies claimed to speak for the MAGA rank and file on Iran. But they’re at odds with the voters—and reality.
Eli Lake
Ceasefire or Not, Iran Looks for Ways to Reduce the Risk of a U.S. Reprisal
Before its missile launch at the Al Udeid military base, Iran gave Qatar a heads-up, which it relayed to the U.S.
Jay Solomon
The Democrats Go AWOL on Iran
On the most consequential foreign policy decision in years, the party of opposition has nothing to say.
Matthew Continetti
Niall Ferguson: What Comes After Trump’s ‘Surgical Strikes’?
As Kissinger often said, every success in foreign policy is just an admission ticket to the next crisis.
Niall Ferguson
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Trump’s Iran Strike Worked
The surviving command may wish to redirect public ire from themselves onto the theocrats. That may be the only way to end this evil regime and the ruin…
Victor Davis Hanson
WATCH: Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Damaged or Destroyed?
Michael Oren, Jay Solomon, and Matti Friedman join Bari for a full briefing on the state of Iran’s nuclear program.
Bari Weiss
1HR 13M
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