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The enmity between Iran and Israel today seems so entrenched that it is difficult to imagine it was ever otherwise. Yet as Arash Azizi shows, in the years following the Second World War, these two nations, one Persian, one Jewish, found common cause as outsiders in an Arab-dominated region...

The first major book on the uprisings in Iran in 2022 and 2023 On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway – the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is...

Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region. A widely popular but also feared maverick operator, he helped to establish the Islamic Republic as a major force in the Middle East, with interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. This was a long way from where he began as a youth, living on the margins in a country ruled by a monarch supported by the United States.