Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ announcement that certain activities mandated by the council cannot be delivered ...

Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, reflects on the internal and external pressures shaping Iran’s future — from ...

E ven before the bombs began to fall, Iran’s economy was in a bad way. Six in ten working-age people were unemployed. Prices ...

Israel’s economy reels after a devastating Iranian missile strike crippled the Haifa oil refinery, causing up to $3 billion ...

The 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro issued Sunday a new declaration advocating for a two-state solution, one Palestinian ...

There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in ...

The Iran crisis mirrors past proliferation episodes. North Korea left the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and went ...

Iran's targeted strikes have sent the Israeli economy into a tailspin, with the US exploiting the fallout to reassert ...

A s Israeli missiles struck Iranian territory and Tehran fired back, the Middle East veered closer to a full-blown regional ...

Oil wells, refineries, pipelines and shipping lanes are the backbone of energy markets. They can be vulnerable during a crisis: Whether there is deliberate sabotage or collateral damage from military ...

While the Iranian constitution outlines a process for succession, even indirect confirmation of such planning is rare — and ...