No matter how sincere Obama has been in his outreach to Iran's leadership, he must recognize that rapprochement is impossible.

Tension between Iran and the United States flared on December 28, 2011, when Habibollah Sayyari, commander of Iran’s navy, threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the 34-mile-wide passage through which more than one-third of the world’s oil tanker traffic travels.

Street protests in Iran are important but are themselves not enough to force change.

What does an IRGC-dominated Iran mean for Europe and the United States?

Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak’s fall is the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end.

To prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, it is time to think outside the box. Could support for trade unions be the answer?

President Barack Obama may be making a mistake by trusting the rhetoric of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, which is not being matched by reality.

Thirty years after the end of the war with Iraq the leadership of the Islamic Republic faces many of the same challenges that it faced during the war with Iraq, but this time, not even Ayatollah Rafsanjani may be capable of defending the regime against its own mismanagement.