Iran

Explore our coverage of Iran’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


Finance and economics

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties

Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis

Middle East and Africa

As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots

Iran’s phoney elections show how the clerics have lost public support

China

Xi Jinping’s chaos-loving friends

Why is stability-obsessed China aligned with Iran, North Korea and Russia?

Britain

Iran is targeting its opponents in Britain

Iran’s regime sees London as both hunting ground and playground

Middle East and Africa

Why Iran is hard to intimidate

US soldiers are a bull’s-eye target for Iranian militias

Middle East and Africa

Shock and awe as America strikes Iran’s proxies

More attacks by the United States on the “axis of resistance” are likely 

The Economist explains

Why is there so much violence in Balochistan?

Militant groups in the region are a common problem for Iran and Pakistan

Middle East and Africa

Violence spirals as Iran’s proxies kill American soldiers  

In an election year Joe Biden is under fierce pressure to retaliate 

Middle East and Africa

America and Iran step closer to the brink of war

Tit-for-tat strikes and assassinations turn the ratchet

Middle East and Africa

The Houthis have survived worse than America’s and Britain’s strikes

The Iran-backed group has been hardened by its long war with Saudi Arabia 

Middle East and Africa

Iran rethinks its role as a regional troublemaker

The Islamic Republic is preoccupied with its transition to a new generation of leaders

Leaders

Iran’s regime is weaker than it looks, and therefore more pliable

America should deter it from escalating the Gaza war, but also engage with it

Middle East and Africa

Why Yemen’s Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea

The risk to shipping from Iran-backed rebels has risen sharply

The Economist explains

What is Iran’s axis of resistance?

The country’s Middle Eastern network of allied militias has grown more powerful

The World Ahead Middle East in 2024

In Iran, 2024 is all about the succession

Ayatollah Ali Khaminei, the supreme leader, makes some calculations

Middle East and Africa

The deadly missile race in the Middle East

Governments no longer have a monopoly on long-range projectiles

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