The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel. Leon Hadar 20 Jun 2024 · 15 min read
Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah Updates on the military situation facing Israel, especially the possibility of all-out war with Hezbollah. Benny Morris 20 Jun 2024 · 17 min read
The Bell 212 Tolls for Tehran We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty. Paul Monk 25 May 2024 · 11 min read
Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34 The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies. Zoe Booth 27 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Iran Contra Israel The Iranian missile strike against Israel marks a watershed moment in the Middle East conflict, even though it was unsuccessful. Benny Morris 16 Apr 2024 · 8 min read
The Iranian Connection Tracing Tehran's ties to the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Pierre James / Suha Hassen 16 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Why Iran is the Key to Peace in the Middle East Many Iranians perceive Israel as a potential ally in their struggle against Islamic oppression. Armin Navabi 4 Jan 2024 · 10 min read
Shadows No More A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran. Brian Stewart 25 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Justice in Stockholm Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth. Roya Hakakian 7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read
Will It Be Different This Time? It is starting to look like a question of when, not if, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall. Brian Stewart 19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
The Great Cover-Up Islamists used a religious lie to crush Mahsa Amini, but women can win this war. Asra Q. Nomani 30 Sep 2022 · 9 min read
Roya Hakakian and How to Speak About What No One Wants to Hear The combined threats against Roya Hakakian and Masih Alinejad suggest a broader policy of violence and intimidation on the part of the Islamic Republic and its operatives in the United States. Paul Berman 27 May 2022 · 35 min read
The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran? The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence. Shay Khatiri 11 Oct 2020 · 7 min read
The Fall of Beirut Except calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain. Art Keller 28 Aug 2020 · 11 min read
How Iran’s Dictators Laid the Foundation for the Country's Coronavirus Crisis While the disease itself is, of course, an apolitical phenomenon, Iran’s repressive, theocratic political system has played a role in the especially high toll that coronavirus is taking on the Iranian people. Shay Khatiri 21 Mar 2020 · 6 min read