As anti-government protests gain momentum in Iran, one question looms above all else: Will the latest round of protests finally topple the country’s theocratic regime, which has ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly half a century? Or will the government once again use force to snuff out

Every Hanukkah, Jews retell the story of the Maccabees, the ancient heroes of the second century BCE, who wrested Jerusalem from the tyranny of the Greek empire. This year was no different. But as Hanukkah draws to an end, we near ever closer to the 250th birthday of the United States—which

Whisper it, but there’s a revolution happening in Iran. The Islamic Republic and the Ayatollah may both still be in place, but right now, away from the world’s attention, Iranian women are quietly rebelling. On the streets of the nation’s major cities, where the regime murdered hundreds of protesters and

Last month, as she took her usual morning walk on Santa Monica Beach, near her home in Los Angeles, Nazila received an unusual text message. It was ominously brief: “We’re okay. Don’t call! Don’t text!” Since June 12, when Israel started bombing Iran, Nazila—an Iranian Jewish expatriate who asked me

On 28 November 2023, the profile of a tenured professor at Oberlin College disappeared from the school’s website. Only a day earlier, typing Mohammad Jafar Mahallati’s name into the site’s search box returned a page with an extensive biography and links to several of his posts and videos. His photograph

Last week, the Council on Foreign Relations invited me to a roundtable discussion it will be hosting Tuesday with the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, who will be in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. As a longtime member of the council, I wrote back to decline the