Obama’s attempt to make Tehran an ally against ISIS has backfired. Trump needs to ditch that approach to keep Iran in check and prevent an ISIS resurgence.

For years, the terrorist organization duped the expert class into believing it was peacefully evolving. Now that many have wised up, new and more dangerous fictions emerge.

Any Israeli withdrawal to the shores of the Kinneret guarantees a structural instability which, sooner or later, will require American military intervention

The roots and legacy of Iranian resentment of the West, part of a weeklong look at 40 years of the revolution

Face to face with the challenges of living a double life under the Iranian theocracy

The PLO’s greatest single contribution to the Iranian Revolution was the formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but the Palestinian leader’s involvement with Iran didn’t end there

In the 40 years after the Iranian Revolution, some women memoirists came to see obedience as the opposite of goodness

How Jewish musicians preserved—and are now saving—Persian music

In an excerpt from a new history of 20th-century Iran, the neglected story of the Jewish revolutionaries who participated in—or adapted to—the sweeping changes of 1979

Introducing Tablet’s week-long series on the 40th anniversary of the Khomeinist revolution in Iran

The horror and hope undergirding Jewish life in post-Revolution Iran

The nonstate Houthis used an Iranian-model drone to attack the Yemeni military’s top brass in a preview of how the next wars in the Middle East will be fought

The mullahs have all the time in the world. Donald Trump does not.

What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?

How President Donald Trump has been forthright about the actual drivers of American policy in the Middle East

From Tabriz to Albany, Anna Kaplan has arrived as a rising name in politics

Only a couple of months away in 2015, according to a new report

Episode 158: Iranian political refugee Shay Khatiri on raising $1.2 million for Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and A.J. Jacobs on his new book about gratitude

A surprise visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Oman last month reveals the Jewish state’s shifting foreign policy

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction

A dispatch from the Golan Heights, where the Jewish state’s confounding political and military policy plays out in the lives of Syrians looking for hope of any kind

In a speech last week Bibi celebrated strength and power, but to what end?

The idea of a new status quo in which Iran entrenches itself in Syria while Russia positions itself as an honest broker should be a strategic nightmare for Israel

‘All we are asking for is to have a representative and democratic government which treats all ethnic and religious groups equally’

With simmering conflicts on the Golan and in Gaza, Tehran looks to strip Israel of its strategic advantages

Agents of Influence: Obama and his advisers, now seeking to shape his legacy, say they are proud they ditched the ‘Washington playbook’ and decided to stay out of the Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East. Only they didn’t. They intervened on behalf of Iran.

More than just providing Assad with military support, the Islamic Republic supplies Syria with anything from blood drives to sporting events

Anatomy of a very tense night

Still dissembling, Iran’s foreign minister looked a bit less polished this week in Manhattan

Our troops in Syria are hostages to Obama’s deal with Iran, which mandates a state of perpetual war between America and the region’s Sunni majority. Donald Trump wants to withdraw from both.