Several factions could vie for power in the event of a regime collapse. Some of them would even give cause for hope.

The exiled son of Iran's last shah, known to his supporters as 'crown prince,' says he's ready to take over. But Iran's ...

In 1979, right after the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah and replaced his largely secular regime with a fanatically theocratic one, Iran effectively ...

Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi was appointed to lead the group after his predecessor, Gen. Hossein Salami, was killed in an Israeli ...

Iran is highly fragmented and doesn’t have a long tradition of democracy or a unified opposition movement. So what happens if ...

Shamkhani represented Iran in high-level China-brokered peace talks with Saudi Arabia, leading to the two re-establishing ...

His archenemy, Israel, has secured free rein over Iran’s skies and is decimating the country’s military leadership and ...

After the shah was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, Iran became an Islamic republic. Khamenei was appointed as a member of ...

Ayatollah Khomeini was the leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution. He deposed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the pro-Western former Shah of Iran, in 1979 and established the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Islamic revolutionary to Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei's hardline stance includes backing terror groups, crushing ...

Most Iranians not only have suffered personally, as many as 85 million, but have a deep yearning for freedom. Iranians aspire ...

There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in ...