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Iran’s defiance in the face of Western aggression has become a rallying cry.

When​ Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman died in 1997, having suffered a brain haemorrhage in the pool of the Paris Ritz, the tributes divided into accounts of a harsh life powered by sex, and prim obituaries that extolled a leading diplomat and ‘doyenne of the Democratic Party’.

The U.S.-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic is Reza Pahlavi’s best chance to resume his family’s reign in nearly fifty years—will it pass him by?

Now that Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, will another face replace his and carry on a version of the same story?

Iranians are rising against censorship and digital inequality, demanding accountability from the Islamic Republic’s regime.

How isolation, intransigence and desperate economic hardship provoked an upsurge of protest that brought the regime to the brink.

It’s hard enough to determine the facts of sexual violence during war; it’s even harder when avenging sexual violence has become a pretext for continuing the war.

Antiquities remain, with the possible exception of wildlife, the only illicit commodity that transnational criminal gangs can trade on the open market. You can’t buy or sell people, drugs or weapons on eBay or at international auction houses.

When Americans look back and take stock of their most impressive first ladies, they rarely think of Rosalynn Carter.