Middle East

Walk through any Iranian city and you will see their presence. The men with beards and stern faces. The buildings with no signs but heavy

Xiyue Wang spent three years in Evin prison. The Iranian government accused him of spying. His family said he just did academic research on Iranian

The computers at a Saudi petrochemical plant started behaving strangely. Pumps spun faster than they should. Valves opened without commands. Safety systems shut down for

Kuwait is slashing its oil and fuel production because cargo ships can no longer safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The ongoing conflict with

The centrifuges spin in underground halls buried deep inside Iranian mountains. Nobody knows exactly how many there are today. The inspectors left years ago. The

Ali sells tea on a Baghdad street corner. He has done this for twenty years. He has seen American tanks roll past his stand. He

Look at a map of the Middle East. Find the tiny waterway between Iran and Oman. That narrow stretch called the Strait of Hormuz is

The drone flew high over Baghdad airport. Nobody on the ground could hear it. Nobody knew it was watching. On the tarmac below, General Qassem

Omar was twenty years old when they signed the nuclear deal. He grew up in Tehran hearing about war every single day. His uncles fought

Walk through southern Lebanon and you will see yellow flags flying everywhere. Those flags belong to Hezbollah. Iran created this group in the 1980s. They