Tag: Iran
Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Utrecht University and Ammar Maleki, Tilburg University
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the...
US and Iran have a long, troubled history
Jeffrey Fields, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for...
Why the US-Iran conflict isn’t driving oil prices higher – and...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Assassinations, militaries on high alert, geopolitical tensions at the boil. Any one of these in Persian Gulf countries would...
Trump asks NATO allies for help with Iran after years of...
Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
U.S. President Donald Trump took a tough line in his address to the nation Jan....
We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
Are we all trapped in a live-action version of Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”?
The Jan. 3 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was...
Killing of Soleimani evokes dark history of political assassinations in the...
Deina Abdelkader, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who promoted the religious and political influence of the Iranian regime across the Middle East with...
How countries in conflict, like Iran and the US, still talk...
Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Even countries that have broken ties with each other need to communicate in times of...
With the US and Iran on the brink of war, the...
President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic...