While international attention is focused on Iran's nuclear program and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bombast, Iranian society itself is facing turbulent times.

This book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous.

Over the last decade, Washington has given progressively more priority to counterterrorism and antiproliferation and progressively less priority to energy security and to assisting U.S. oil companies.

Press release/summary for Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos.

Who is investing in Iran? Why does it matter?

While the risk of doing business with Iran has increased since the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the imposition of UN Security Council-mandated sanctions, many international corporations, banking institutions, and state-run export agencies have continued investing in the Islamic Republic. Western governments have denounced Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and sponsorship of...

Joshua Muravchik responds to letters to the editor in the most recent issue of Foreign Policy.

Since Iran’s clandestine nuclear portfolio was made public in 2002, the Islamic regime has stood in defiance of international calls to halt its nuclear activities. United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1696 demanded Iran suspend its nuclear program by August 31, 2006, or risk facing possible economic and diplomatic sanctions....