International Relations

When regime change is defended “at any cost,” moral boundaries collapse, violence is normalized, and human lives are turned into...

Without major reciprocal security guarantees, the current U.S.–Iran talks may amount to nothing more than a pause between two wars....

This war’s deepest cost is borne by wage-earners: inflation, unemployment, destroyed industry, and the crushing of hopes for change. One...

Hormuz is testing not only energy markets, but the petrodollar order that bound U.S. power, Middle Eastern oil, and dollar...

Trump, Tehran, and Israel still see victory as possible; the war has not yet reached the point where cost and...

Vahabi argues the Hormuz crisis exceeds past oil shocks and may bring inflation, stagnation, and social breakdown in Iran. Mehrdad...

Three experts reflect on the strike on Asaluyeh, warning of deepening hardship for workers, economic disruption, and a widening regional...

Ali Rasouli argues that Larijani was an executor, not a strategist, and that his assassination matters less than the regime’s...

A woman in Tehran describes fear, displacement, checkpoints, collapsing livelihoods, and a war that has tightened repression instead of opening...

Strikes reportedly hit Tehran’s leadership compound and military sites nationwide; Iran answered with rapid missile waves as explosions, interceptions, and...