MICHAEL MCFAUL is Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute, Professor of Political Science, and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford ...

Global diplomacy has once again intensified over Iran's nuclear program. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported US ...

As a result of the Israeli and American aerial assaults of June 2025, the threat of an Iran with nuclear weapons has, for some indeterminate length of time, been lifted. This is wonderful news for ...

Perhaps that’s because, with Russia’s long-range drone supply chain secured, Iran’s role as a critical supplier for Moscow’s war is waning. Instead, Russia can capitalize on a weakened and isolated ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel handed a letter to President Trump nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. But ...

Following American airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last week, and then the imposition of a ceasefire, it’s time to step back and assess what has changed in the Middle East, and the ...

Aerial assaults raged between Iran and Israel early Monday, while Tehran vowed retaliation over the bunker-buster bombs American warplanes unleashed at the weekend on three nuclear sites. US President ...

China condemned U.S. strikes on Iran, calling them a serious violation of international law that further inflamed tensions in the Middle East. In a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged all ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Iranians to “rise up” and overthrow Tehran’s “evil and oppressive regime”. As Iranian missiles rained down on Israel in retaliation for Thursday’s devastating attack ...

Trump urges restraint, Netanyahu pushes back In a flurry of posts on Truth Social, Trump appealed to Israel to halt further attacks, writing, “BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!” and announcing that ...

Iran's nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security. Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat. The situation in the ...