Why Iran Doesn’t Need a Navy To Threaten Global Energy
The IRGC's strategy in the Strait of Hormuz isn't about naval power, it's about exploiting geography. By selectively allowing some vessels to pass while raising the commercial risk for others, Iran is turning the world's most critical energy choke point into a tool of coercive leverage.
The Iran War Is What ‘America First’ Actually Looks Like
Segments of the MAGA base, the Western left, Global South solidarity networks and the Iranian regime itself have converged, improbably, on the same talking point: This is not America First. They are all wrong. The Iran war is actually the purest expression of America First, its direct consequence.
An Anguished Debate Among Iranians
The war has occasioned an anguished debate among Iranians. The division that has emerged — between those who will not support a war on their own country and those who have, through suffering and desperation, arrived at support for the war — is real and painful and will not be resolved easily.
Lessons in Power and Democracy From Syria to Iran
Journalist and author Anand Gopal joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss what two decades of America's wars reveal about the nature of power, a forgotten democratic experiment in Syria, and his new book, "Days of Love and Rage.”
Iran’s Afghan Refugees Flee Homeward
As Afghans travel across the Islam Qala border crossing, they are trading one form of desperation for another, leaving behind discrimination and economic survival in Iran for a homeland that offers little hope, especially for women and girls.