A great and ancient culture and civilization with an increasingly urbanized and sophisticated population, Iran has so much more to offer the world than terrorism and pistachio nuts.

After Jordan, Bahrain is the Arab state in which the United States can least afford regime change.

As violence provoked by Muqtada al-Sadr's fringe Jaysh al-Mahdi militia enters its third day, Washington remains in a frenzy of misplaced panic.

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

Don't believe those who herald "reformers"--it's still Khomeini's Iran.

What strategies is Iran employing to increase its influence within Iraq?

Iran has been at war with us for twenty-seven years, but what can America possibly gain from talking with a self-centered enemy?

In Iraq today, Iran is replicating the methods by which it promoted the rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s, and the United States must develop an effective counterstrategy.