A visual timeline of Iran’s history from 600 BCE to 2020, presented year-by-year. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:11 Ancient era 0:31 Achaemenid era 1:07 Greek Occupation 1:20 Parthian era 2:32 Sasanian era ...

Among close followers of Iran, the late historian Richard Nelson Frye is a household name. Beyond that world, however, he is little known. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, Frye’s ...

The midterms will shape the next two years of American politics. What happens in Iran could shape the Middle East for the ...

For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. The region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear-armed and militarily superior Israel, and ...

The US Vice-President JD Vance’s famous statement within hours of the midterm results that “the reason we lost is the Iran ...

For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Arthur I. Cyr is the author of “After the Cold War – American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia.” Chaos characterizes the Middle East, and that has been true for most of the very long ...

A man and a woman flash the victory sign as they sit on their motorbike in front of a banner with graphic depicting the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kissing head of the late ...

Funeral marks major moment in modern Iranian history Iran plans funeral events in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Iraq Hotels offer discounts, buses and trains diverted for mourners DUBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - ...