President Trump wants to bring about regime change in both Cuba and Iran. Either would be good for U.S. national security but neither is likely. Why? Mr. Trump has urged Cuba to make a deal “before it ...
“A PRINCE OUGHT to inspire fear,” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli, but “he must endeavour only to avoid hatred”, lest it prove his undoing. By that measure Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is ...
The Iranian regime may have crushed the latest round of protests in its streets, but the Islamic Republic’s long-term leadership remains far from resolved. Whether by overthrow or old age, Supreme ...
“Help is on its way,” Donald Trump told the people of Iran on Tuesday as he urged them to keep protesting and “take over your institutions”. The US president had earlier declared that America was ...
Steve Forbes explains that President Trump must face up to the stark truth that anything less than the overthrow of the extremist government in Iran will be a disastrous strategic, defeat for the U.S.
The Iranian regime has gone on the offensive, threatening anyone who supported the recent protests in any way — after a crackdown that sources tell CBS News may have killed some 12,000 people, and ...
WASHINGTON — The repressive Iranian regime is likely in its “final days and weeks,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz dramatically predicted Tuesday — as shocking images emerged of thousands killed in ...
The United States government is not contemplating regime change on the scale of Iraq as it ponders how to make good on President Donald Trump’s promise to come to the “rescue” of Iranian protesters ...
WSJ National Security Reporter Robbie Gramer explains the rationale behind President Trump’s military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro. Photo: Aaron ...
WSJ’s Benoit Faucon explains the financial collapse fueling deadly clashes, how President Trump and Iran are responding to the unrest and what’s next for the country’s deteriorating political ...
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Marching alongside a column of protesters through the city of Borujerd in western Iran, a middle-aged woman appeared unperturbed by the blood streaming down her chin. “I am not afraid,” she called out ...