Iran’s network spans half a dozen countries and has so fundamentally altered the region’s strategic balance that no nation can take on Iran and its proxies without enormous risk.
The attack in the heart of Saudi Arabia on Saturday was audacious; it set a precedent for the targets, tactics, and scope of warfare in the Persian Gulf and has global ramifications.
It’s easy to wonder how Bolton lasted as Trump’s national-security adviser for as long as he did. It may be more important to wonder why he bothered at all.
The President has proved irascibly intransigent on the world stage. This time, he spouted fabulist views on China, Russia, North Korea, and the environment.
Marzieh Meshkini’s three-part film is a masterwork of symbolic cinema; it depicts, with vast imagination, the ordeals faced by women in modern Iranian society.
The invitation was extended just weeks before the Administration placed sanctions on Mohammad Javad Zarif for functioning “as a propaganda minister, not a foreign minister.”
Kiarostami’s career was made by the Iranian Revolution’s promise of liberation—how to to preserve and convey the spirit of freedom in the face of constraint became his animating challenge.