Iran
The Decider
Opponents of an Israeli strike on Iran have focused their ire on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But it's his hawkish defense minister, Ehud Barak, who is really driving the talk of war.
BY OREN KESSLER | AUGUST 23, 2012
KABOOM
Everyone calm down: Israel is not going to bomb Iran. Well, at least not in 2012.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | AUGUST 20, 2012
This Is Not a Test
Are missile defenses ready if Iran responds to an Israeli strike?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 17, 2012
The Ayatollah's Pregnant Pause
What's behind the "new" intelligence on Iran's nuclear program.
BY JEFFREY LEWIS | AUGUST 15, 2012
The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East
Sorry, folks: America just doesn't care about freedom or Arab-Israeli peace all that much.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | AUGUST 15, 2012
The Syrian Spillover
Is anyone prepared for the unintended consequences of the war for Syria?
BY DANIEL L. BYMAN, KENNETH M. POLLACK | AUGUST 10, 2012
The Next Proxy War
How the United States can use the Syrian civil war to prepare the region -- for Iran.
BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 10, 2012
So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster
It’s easy -- if you try hard enough and have the right friends! Here’s a handy how-to guide to making moolah from the mullahs.
BY MARK DUBOWITZ | AUGUST 10, 2012
The Angry Lightweight
What's worse than not having a coherent foreign policy? Mouthing off about it.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 31, 2012
Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing, Tracks of a Resurgent Iran-Hezbollah Threat
Bent on avenging attacks on its nuclear program, Iran and Hezbollah have allegedly spun at least 10 terror plots in the past year, most of them failures. With this month's deadly bombing in the beach resort of Burgas, Western counterterror officials say, the Shiite alliance has crossed a dangerous line.
BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLA | JULY 30, 2012
If Iran Did It
Only in the warped logic of the Islamic Republic would the Bulgaria attack make sense.
BY AFSHON OSTOVAR | JULY 23, 2012
Word Is Bond
Has President Obama kept Candidate Obama's campaign promises?
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 23, 2012
Choke Point
In threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is risking more than war. It just might make the vitally important oil shipping route irrelevant.
BY GAL LUFT | JULY 19, 2012
Plague of Thugs
Why Mideast dictators use hoodlums to suppress dissent.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 18, 2012
The Sanctions Aren't Working
In its failing drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program, the West is only empowering hardliners and pushing the Iranian people to the brink of poverty.
BY ESKANDAR SADEGHI-BOROUJERDI, MUHAMMAD SAHIMI | JULY 5, 2012
Battle Rial
To end Iran's nuclear program, it's time for America to step up its economic warfare.
BY MARK DUBOWITZ | JUNE 28, 2012
The Great Caspian Arms Race
Inside the petro-fueled naval military buildup you've never heard of: It's Russia versus Iran, with three post-Soviet states -- and trillions of dollars in oil -- in the middle.
BY JOSHUA KUCERA | JUNE 22, 2012
The Caspian's New Sea Monsters
The post-Soviet region has begun a high-stakes arms race, fueled by competition for recently discovered oil fields.
JUNE 22, 2012
Can't We All Just Not Get Along?
Why the push for bipartisan consensus in foreign policy is a dumb idea.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 22, 2012
How Is Energy Remaking the World?
To navigate the complicated new politics of oil and gas, FP asked the author of The Quest and leading U.S. energy historian to help shape our latest survey -- and guide us through the results.
BY DANIEL YERGIN | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Epiphanies from C. Fred Bergsten
The veteran economist and Washington power-player on China, currency wars, and working with Henry Kissinger.
INTERVIEW BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | JULY/AUGUST 2012
The Persian Gulf
The divide between young Iranians and the regime is widening every day.
JULY/AUGUST 2012
Egypt's Subsidy Blues
When Egypt's next rulers finally tackle urgently needed economic reform, they should look to an unlikely model: Iran.
BY PETER PASSELL | JUNE 15, 2012
An Annotated Guide to All Those White House Leaks
The 10 Obama administration disclosures that Attorney General Eric Holder should investigate.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | JUNE 13, 2012
Everything in Syria Is Going to Plan
It just depends on whose plan you're talking about.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JUNE 13, 2012
The Patience Runs Out
The United States has put up with Pakistan's insidious double game for a decade now. Not anymore.
BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | JUNE 12, 2012
Will India Ever Really Be America's Partner?
Ten big things Washington is still waiting on from New Delhi.
BY CHRISTOPHER CLARY | JUNE 11, 2012
Red, Red Lines
Israel's threats to Iran are making matters worse. If anyone is going to attack, it better be the U.S.
BY COLIN H. KAHL, MATTHEW IRVINE, AND MELISSA G. DALTON | JUNE 7, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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