Tag: Regime

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, talks during a presser following his meeting with Grand Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the head of Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, not pictured, at Al Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Egypt's most prominent Muslim cleric, the sheik of Al-Azhar, has warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against interfering in Arab Gulf countries or trying to spread Shiite influence. Ahmadinejad, on a landmark visit to Egypt on Tuesday, received an uneasy reception from Ahmed el-Tayeb at Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's foremost Islamic institution.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

How one leak is tearing Iran apart from the inside

Emzari Gelashvili · July 16, 2026 7:00 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., arrives at a campaign event on, Aug. 19, 2025, at Holt Bros. BBQ in Florence, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

Lindsey Graham is gone. His Middle East plan doesn’t have to die with him

Jose Lev Alvarez · July 16, 2026 6:00 am

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The questions ‘democratic socialists’ keep dodging

Eric Patterson · July 15, 2026 7:00 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin holding an opened card.

Ceasefire imminent? Putin’s endgame has arrived

David W. Wang · July 14, 2026 8:00 am

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello listens to Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez delivering a statement at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

Forget Maduro — Diosdado Cabello is the one holding Venezuela hostage

Jose Lev Alvarez · July 13, 2026 6:00 am

President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House after a shooting outside the ballroom at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Trump rightly calls off wedding after Iran’s abusive engagement

John D. O’Connor · July 9, 2026 9:39 am

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of NATO meeting at the Bestepe Presidential complex, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump must keep his promise to the Iranian people

Sheila Nazarian · July 9, 2026 6:00 am

The coffins of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center on top, and members of his family are displayed ahead of the dayslong funeral ceremonies at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2026.

Iran’s gaslighting kills: Declaring ‘victory’ in utter humiliation

Joseph Epstein · July 7, 2026 10:00 am

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Serbia and Georgia aren’t our friends. They’re authoritarian regimes courting Trump

Keti Korkiya, Ivana Stradner · July 2, 2026 10:00 am

President Donald Trump voiced his growing frustration with NATO Monday, just two days before he's slated to host Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump’s unfinished Iran war: The danger of stopping without a real endgame

Pedro Ordein · June 29, 2026 10:00 am

Iranian commuters walk past a large tiled image of Iran's current leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.

Trump wounded the Iran hydra. Don’t pretend it’s dead

Arie Blitz · June 23, 2026 11:00 am

President Donald Trump

Trump’s Iran deal will have grave consequences for the United States

Devin Sper · June 23, 2026 6:00 am