A new documentary from Petra Costa on Netflix explores Brazil’s political and spiritual turmoil, underscoring the fragility ...

Shiite Islam offers Iranians a standard it views as just. Iran calls itself an Islamic republic. Many Iranians may appreciate ...

There are many examples in the world today of governments that are referred to as theocracies. By definition, a theocracy is ...

A top Shia cleric in Iran issued a fatwa against anyone who threatens the supreme leader, but it poses far more danger to ...

Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated Donald Trump. So ends ...

As postbellum realities now simmer in Iran, the theocracy is left explaining the inexplicable to its humiliated military and shocked but soon-to-be-furious populace. All the regime’s blood-curdling ...

Exploring the decline of the Iranian theocracy and its implications for the Middle East.

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile ...

The war may be over in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel, but the battle over the future of Tehran is likely to soon begin. The Associated Press' Jon Gambrell explains.