Khamenei
Tehran’s Trump Trap
Iran is seeking to gain leverage while hoping that Washington will misread its own weakness and fear as goodwill and restraint. Tehran is setting a trap for the Trump administration....
Iran’s Khamenei Blames the United States and Israel for Unrest
In his first public remarks in weeks, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei claimed on Monday that the United States and Israel had incited the ongoing protest movement surrounding the death...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Emerges After Reports of Health Crisis
Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei made his first public appearance in several weeks over the weekend, appearing to push back against reports that he was seriously ill and had nearly...
Could Biden and Iran Make Another “Grand Bargain”?
US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to make a detailed policy statement on the Middle East in the weeks following his inauguration on 20 January 2021. A new, timely ‘grand...
Iran’s Fake Election Can Only Have One WInner
Iran is preparing for another set of rigged parliamentary elections Friday. Once again, Iran’s clerical regime has vetoed the candidacies of almost half of the 14,000 would-be office-seekers who registered to run...
Can Hassan Rouhani Win Re-Election?
Before the U.S. elections, when Trump’s chances at ascending to the Oval Office seemed, to most liberal voters at least, a distant possibility, Iranian hardliners lined up with many of...
After Iran’s Elections, the Supreme Leader’s Next Steps
Many in the Western media are hoping the apparent success of reformist and moderate candidates in Iran’s February 26 election for parliament and the Assembly of Experts is a sign...
Khamenei’s History of Backing Vigilantes
Since Iran’s 1979 revolution, Tehran has seen attacks on the embassies of the United States, Britain and Saudi Arabia, and numerous demonstrations around other foreign embassies. The Islamic Republic is...
Khomeini Is Back!
Hassan Khomeini, grandson of noted poetry enthusiast and founding father of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has announced he’ll be running for his country’s Assembly of Experts....