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Iran

June 29, 2021

Ideas

Iran Stops Pretending

Karim Sadjadpour

June 20, 2021

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's hard-line president-elect

Global

No One Is Coming to Help the Palestinians

Kim Ghattas

May 16, 2021

A woman looks through a window at the rooftop of a building which was hit by an airstrike.

Ideas

How to Win the Cold War With Iran

Karim Sadjadpour

March 25, 2021

Ideas

The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality

Graeme Wood

March 17, 2021

A man wearing a suit hugs the Chinese American graduate student Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland, on a tarmac in front of an American diplomatic jet.

Ideas

The Case Against the Iran Deal

Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi

January 21, 2021

President Hassan Rouhani at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in 2015.

Ideas

Trump Could Still Start a Last-Ditch War With Iran

Tom Nichols

December 30, 2020

A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Dec. 30, 2020.

Ideas

The Disastrous Idea That Won’t Go Away

Kori Schake

November 19, 2020

Ideas

Where Is Iran’s Supreme Leader?

Graeme Wood

March 17, 2020

A worker in a protective suit sprays a disinfectant

Ideas

Iran Has Far More Coronavirus Cases Than It Is Letting On

Graeme Wood

March 9, 2020

Ideas

Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society

Graeme Wood

February 27, 2020

Ideas

Trump’s Iran Strategy Isn’t Working as Well as He Thinks

Kori Schake

February 2, 2020

An Iranian woman displays an image of Qassem Soleimani on her phone.

Ideas

Iran’s Leaders Have a Problem They Can’t Fix

Suzanne Maloney

January 19, 2020

Ideas

How Stressed Is Iran?

Graeme Wood

January 18, 2020

Ideas

Is Trump a Jacksonian at Heart?

Conor Friedersdorf

January 15, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks to U.S. troops.

Global

The Endorsement Iran’s Protesters Didn’t Want

Yasmeen Serhan

January 15, 2020

a woman holds a wedding picture depicting two victims of the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752.

Politics

The Iran Plane Crash Is the Big Story

Uri Friedman

January 14, 2020

A rescue team carries a body at the site where the Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran.

Global

Iran’s Response to Soleimani’s Killing Is Coming

Sam Dagher

January 14, 2020

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters via a screen during a funeral ceremony rally to mourn Qassem Soleimani.

Ideas

Obama Should Never Have Appeased Iran

Mario Loyola

January 12, 2020

A protester in the middle of a crowd in Iran holds a rose and a photograph of Qassem Soleimani.

Ideas

Trump Broke It. Now He Owns It.

David Frum

January 10, 2020

Ideas

Iran’s Smart Strategy

Tom Nichols

January 10, 2020

Protester waving Iraq flag after missile strike in Baghdad

Technology

The Overwhelming Visibility of the Iran Plane Crash

Alexis C. Madrigal

January 9, 2020

Rescue teams amid the debris of a Ukranian jet that crashed near Tehran’s airport.

Ideas

We’re Just Discovering the Price of Killing Soleimani

David Frum

January 9, 2020

A man holds a photo of Qassem Soleimani, surrounded by others on a dark street in Tehran, celebrating after Iran launched missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq.

Politics

What the Iran Clash Taught Us About Trump

Peter Nicholas

January 9, 2020

Politics

The Atlantic Politics Daily: The World’s Nuclear Guardrails Are Vanishing

Saahil Desai and Christian Paz

January 9, 2020

Ideas

Trump Is No Closer to Solving America’s Iran Problem

David A. Graham

January 8, 2020

Politics

Trump’s Chance to Take the High Road With Iran

Mike Giglio

January 8, 2020

A protester holds a sign reading "No war with Iran."

Ideas

The Iranian Humiliation Trump Is Trying to Avenge

David A. Graham

January 7, 2020

Politics

America’s Self-Sabotage in the Middle East

Kathy Gilsinan

January 6, 2020

Ideas

Soleimani’s Ultimate Revenge

William J. Burns and Jake Sullivan

January 6, 2020

Iranians carry pictures of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qassem Soleimani during Soleimani's funeral.

Ideas

The Recurring Folly of ‘If You See Something, Say Something’

Juliette Kayyem

January 6, 2020

Police officers inspect a bag in a New York subway station.

Ideas

An Extraordinarily Dangerous Moment

Ben Rhodes

January 5, 2020

Politics

The Blueprint Iran Could Follow After Soleimani’s Death

Uri Friedman

January 4, 2020

Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps march during a commemoration of the Iran-Iraq War in 2011.

Ideas

Trump Is Playing Chess One Turn at a Time

Eliot A. Cohen

January 4, 2020

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, July 30, 2019, following a trip to the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, Virginia.

Ideas

Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime

George Packer

January 3, 2020

Protesters holding posters of Qassem Suleimani

Ideas

Two Questions to Ask Now That Qassem Soleimani Is Dead

Graeme Wood

January 3, 2020

A boy carries a portrait of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qassem Soleimani.

Sections

The Print Edition

The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t the Problem. Iran Is.

Iran Stops Pretending

No One Is Coming to Help the Palestinians

How to Win the Cold War With Iran

The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality

The Case Against the Iran Deal

Trump Could Still Start a Last-Ditch War With Iran

The Disastrous Idea That Won’t Go Away

Where Is Iran’s Supreme Leader?

Iran Has Far More Coronavirus Cases Than It Is Letting On

Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society

Trump’s Iran Strategy Isn’t Working as Well as He Thinks

Iran’s Leaders Have a Problem They Can’t Fix

How Stressed Is Iran?

Is Trump a Jacksonian at Heart?

The Endorsement Iran’s Protesters Didn’t Want

The Iran Plane Crash Is the Big Story

Iran’s Response to Soleimani’s Killing Is Coming

Obama Should Never Have Appeased Iran

Trump Broke It. Now He Owns It.

Iran’s Smart Strategy

The Overwhelming Visibility of the Iran Plane Crash

We’re Just Discovering the Price of Killing Soleimani

What the Iran Clash Taught Us About Trump

The Atlantic Politics Daily: The World’s Nuclear Guardrails Are Vanishing

Trump Is No Closer to Solving America’s Iran Problem

Trump’s Chance to Take the High Road With Iran

The Iranian Humiliation Trump Is Trying to Avenge

America’s Self-Sabotage in the Middle East

Soleimani’s Ultimate Revenge

The Recurring Folly of ‘If You See Something, Say Something’

An Extraordinarily Dangerous Moment

The Blueprint Iran Could Follow After Soleimani’s Death

Trump Is Playing Chess One Turn at a Time

Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime

Two Questions to Ask Now That Qassem Soleimani Is Dead