Why did the Islamic Republic continue clandestine cooperation with Israel?
Abstract It is often believed that Iran’s Islamic Republic and the State of Israel became estranged after Ayatollah Khomeini arose to power during the Islamic R...
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Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal
From the onset of the Biden presidency, the administration has promised the American people a renewed agreement, or “Iran Deal,” to cull nuclear proliferation b...
Queer Biopolitics in Authoritarian Iran
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) As photographer Laurence Rasti depicts above, queer life in Iran is fraught with tension....
The Atomic Bomb is What States Make of it: A Constructivist Approach to Sanctioning Iran
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) “There is no “logic” of anarchy apart from the practices that create and inst...
A Means to End Nuclear Proliferation: An Argument for U.S. Recommitment to an Iran Nuclear Deal
The City of Music is set to host a round of negotiations on a potential return to the magnum opus of nuclear agreements next week. Vienna, Austria’s capital cit...
Mounting tensions in the Middle East Following U.S. Killing of High-ranking Iranian Military leader
Written by: Jamari O’Neal, Hampton University Qasseem Soleimani On Friday, January 3, 2020, missiles struck the Baghdad International Airport killing seve...
Iranian Nationalism during the Constitutional Revolution
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911 brought major shifts to Iranian society, the reverberations of which remain evident today. This paper examine...
The Implications of the Saudi-Iran Conflict on the People of Yemen
The pressing issue at hand in the Middle East is the growing tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The conflict between these two nations has its roots i...
Facing Mirrors: A Film about Transgender Rights in Iran
Written by Ariana Habibi On February 22, 2019, The Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center hosted a screening of Facing Mirrors (آینه های روبرو) , ...
Importing Arms, Exporting the Revolution: Mehdi Hashemi and His Fatal Leak to Ash-Shiraa
Written by Rosa Shapiro-Thompson The story that broke in the small Lebanese weekly, Ash-Shiraa, on November 3, 1986, led to the exposure of a tangled story of s...