In his new book, Iran Unveiled, former AEI research fellow Ali Alfoneh illuminates one of the most important changes in Iran’s history since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979: the ...

The ongoing social unrest in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman murdered by the Islamic Republic’s “morality police,” shows no sign of abetting. Naturally, legions of Iran ...

Iranian Kurdish families living in a camp in Iraq hold on to one hope: that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran weakens Iran’s ...

Pakistan began describing itself as an ideological state after the word had been made respectable by the Soviet Union through its planned economy and rapid growth. Ideology means the state has an idea ...

Since 9/11, some liberals have occasionally compared the fundamentalist tendencies of the religious right with the fundamentalist tendencies of radical Islam. Conservatives often objected -- not ...

Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed into a ...

WHEN a crisis hits a vast institution it can seem reasonable to say that the task of handling the crisis falls mainly to the institution itself. It must regroup and survive, or else fail and collapse.