The Islamic Republic of Iran poses a grave challenge to both the United States and the region.

Two decades after exposure of Iran’s then-covert nuclear enrichment program, Tehran is close to a nuclear weapon, even by its own admission. Its Revolutionary Guards prop up the Syrian regime, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and various Iraqi militias. The regime openly engages in hostage diplomacy. Meanwhile, U.S. Iran policy has become a political football, with partisanship trumping any honest assessment of what works and what does not.