A visual timeline of Iran’s history from 600 BCE to 2020, presented year-by-year. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:11 Ancient era ...

For purposes of my own writing, I’ve slightly modified an available online chronology of the history of Islamic-era Iran that I thought some readers here might find of value. In what follows below, I ...

For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The ...

For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. The region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear-armed and militarily superior Israel, and ...