Tensions between the United States and Iran are escalating once again after former U.S. President Donald Trump declared that ...

A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized cargo headed to Iran from China, a ...

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Since 1979, the US has been in perpetual economic, military, and political combat with the Iranian state. The only difference now is that bombs are falling. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump ...

Without a deal on its nuclear program with the United States, Iran is likely to rush toward weaponization. In a region notorious for its unpredictable ebbs and flows, the possible renewal of US-Iran ...

After Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, there were good reasons to be skeptical about the official justification for launching the operation. After all, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

The world is moving closer to the brink of nuclear war in alarming ways that are more dangerous and harder to anticipate than during the Cold War. The famous 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a harrowing ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misspelled Cornell University professor David Silbey’s name. President Donald Trump wants to call the most recent round of fighting ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Wahid Hanna of the International Crisis Group about the ceasefire between Israel and Iran and other diplomatic efforts to stabilize the wider region. The ...

Fareed Zakaria hosts a detailed special tracing the historical conflict between the United States and Iran, starting with a dramatization of a B-2 bomber strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The ...

Israel’s short but destructive summer war against Iran and its brazen military strikes on Doha in September have reignited a debate across the Middle East over the value of nuclear deterrence. Gulf ...