State media officially announced that Mojtaba Khamenei will serve as the new supreme leader of Iran. The Assembly of Experts, a group of eighty-eight powerful clerics, chose the fifty-six-year-old leader
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 history. He slept on a
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 no reason. Then the whole
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 Iran has forced this major
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 cameras stopped working. Iran learned
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 has seen Iranian flags wave
The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has entered an unprecedented and volatile new chapter. The United States maintains a highly complex, deeply debated, and highly scrutinized position regarding its
The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has been fundamentally altered by the unprecedented escalation of military engagements categorized under the umbrella of Operation Epic Fury. As of March 6,
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 most important oil chokepoint
US and Israeli missiles just struck two schools in Parand, a growing town southwest of Tehran. Iran’s Fars news agency reported the terrifying attack on Thursday and shared photos showing
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