The Iran War: An Explainer
A selection of essays and interviews in Quillette examining how and why Iran and the West are at war, and what is likely to happen next.
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A selection of essays and interviews in Quillette examining how and why Iran and the West are at war, and what is likely to happen next.
President Donald Trump must choose between a military strike on Iran, whose consequences no one can predict, and a deal that would leave the Islamic Republic still able to attack its own citizens, menace Israel, and export terrorism worldwide.
The destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities may be imminent—here’s why.
The logic of making Iran’s nuclear program less dangerous via the JCPOA agreement while leaning on the FBI to ignore the crimes of the smugglers that made Iran’s nuclear program so dangerous remains hard to fathom.