Absent outside intervention, Iran in 2025 will be an increasingly ideological and militaristic nuclear power, and it is foolhardy to assume that any nation can accommodate the extraordinarily dangerous Islamic Republic as it will be in 15 years.

Technology--from the telegraph to the audiotape--has played important roles in consolidating political authority in Iran. Now, technology is making the Islamic Republic vulnerable.

Background on the Baluchistan region.

Background on the British Indian agency that managed telegraph lines in Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Iranian regime continues to embrace suicide terrorism as an important component of its military doctrine.

Why does Iran consider Afghanistan so important? What are Iran's strategic aims in Afghanistan?

The growth of terrorist activity in Pakistan's Punjab Province could have serious consequences for Pakistan's stability, the war in Afghanistan, India-Pakistan relations, and international terrorism.