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Iran
International
Gathering storm
Tony Walker
3 October 2024
As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander
Middle East
Cycle of revenge
Tony Walker
19 September 2024
Israel’s intensifying effort to deter its enemies adds to the risk of an escalation in regional violence
International
Violence begetting violence
Tony Walker
2 August 2024
While the United States fumbles, more provocations have lifted the risks of a region-wide conflict in the Middle East
International
Middle Eastern tinderbox
Tony Walker
21 June 2024
As the merciless bombings continue in Gaza, developments on the Lebanon–Israel border are adding to the risk of yet more warfare
International
Playing with fire
Tony Walker
2 April 2024
The Israeli attack in Damascus has increased the risk of a region-wide conflict
International
Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship enters a new phase
John Tilemann
9 May 2018
Just weeks before his meeting with Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement. What is likely to happen next?
Correspondents
Iran: why it’s been different this time
R. Tousi
4 January 2018
The latest protests reveal rising discontent outside the major cities
International
Iran, Trump and the art of deal-breaking
John Tilemann
16 October 2017
White House decisions are making life harder for America’s allies, and not just in the Middle East
Correspondents
“We made it impossible for them to steal our votes again”
R. Tousi
7 July 2017
Despite the tough Middle Eastern neighborhood and internal resistance, Iranians continue to seek greater freedom and equality
International
“Offensive, defensive, everything”
Andy Butfoy
9 March 2017
Character and content can be hard to disentangle in assessing Donald Trump’s international security policies
National affairs
In the eye of the storms
John Langmore and Ramesh Thakur
23 October 2013
The Security Council remains a key forum for resolving international conflicts, and Australia is right to be there, write
John Langmore
and
Ramesh Thakur
International
Iran’s resilient rebellion
Nasrin Alavi
21 February 2011
Tehran’s ruling elite says that Iran’s revolutionary experience was the inspiration for the Arab insurrections, yet seeks to crush demonstrators at home. Iran’s…
Books & arts
Adventuring
Sylvia Lawson
16 June 2010
CINEMA | More from the Sydney Film Festival with
Sylvia Lawson
International
The waiting game
Kevin Boreham
29 June 2009
That old diplomatic stand-by, “masterly inactivity,” might well be the best response to the events in Iran, writes
Kevin Boreham
Podcasts
Uniting the opposition in Iran
Peter Clarke
25 June 2009
Ali Ansari
, director of the Iranian Institute at the University of St Andrews, talks to
Peter Clarke
about the growing split in Iran’s ruling elite
Podcasts
Democracy gains momentum in Iran
Peter Clarke
7 June 2009
Ali Ansari
describes to
Peter Clarke
how the economic downturn and the sidelining of Iran’s powerful Guardian Council have thrown open this Friday’s presidential election