Middle East Perspectives

Dalia Dassa Kaye’s new book, “Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy,” recounts and analyzes the root causes behind more than four decades of failed efforts at reconciliation between the U.S. and…

Israel launched massive strikes on Iran on June 13 with the announced aim of degrading Iran’s nuclear program. One week in, the war has broadened to include attacks on civilian infrastructure and a…

Iran’s cold war with the US can only be understood through examining the country’s long history of empire, invasion and containment. In his new book, Mohsen Milani provides fascinating details about how this…

The United States and Iran have moved perilously close to direct clashes as a result of the escalating war in the Middle East and US efforts to defend Israel. Iran has also intervened…