Iran

Volunteers from Basij forces wearing protective suits and face masks spray disinfectant in the streets, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fears, in Tehran, Iran April 3, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Ali Khara via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Iraq

Iraqi Shia leaders split over loyalty to Iran

Geneive Abdo

Saturday, April 4, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Houthi troops ride on the back of a police patrol truck after participating in a Houthi gathering in Sanaa, Yemen February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Why are Yemen’s Houthis attacking Riyadh now?

Bruce Riedel

Monday, March 30, 2020

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands under pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini while speaking during a ceremony to mark Khomeini's death anniversary at his tomb at Tehran's Behesht-Zahra cemetery June 3, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo

Podcast Episode

The 1979 Iranian Revolution’s enduring impact on the world

Suzanne Maloney and Bill Finan

Friday, March 27, 2020

US President Donald Trump (R) and Iraqi President Barham Salih attend a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 50th World Economic Forum.

Order from Chaos

The relationship between Iraq and the US is in danger of collapse. That can’t happen.

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Sara Allawi

Friday, March 20, 2020

Blog Posts

Iraqi women gather at the scene where Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad airport, Iraq February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Wissam al-Okaili

Order from Chaos

What will happen to Iraqi Shiite militias after one key leader’s death?

Ranj Alaaldin

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Order from Chaos

Yemen’s war is escalating again

Bruce Riedel

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

A woman walks past parliamentary election campaign posters at the end of the parliamentary election day in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

Iran’s parliamentary elections occur amid unprecedented pressures

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Thursday, February 20, 2020

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Experts

Suzanne Maloney

Interim Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

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Daniel L. Byman

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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John R. Allen

President, The Brookings Institution

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Events

2019

Dec

Past Event

Upheaval and repression in Iran: What’s next for the Islamic Republic?

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Pushing the limits: U.S.-Iranian brinkmanship in the Gulf

6:00 PM - 7:30 AM EDT

The impact of militias on governance and geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Washington, DC

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Research

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger - RC13159EFD90

Policy 2020

Averting a new Iranian nuclear crisis

Robert Einhorn

Friday, January 17, 2020

Iraq

Pitfalls of the paramilitary paradigm: The Iraqi state, geopolitics, and Al-Hashd al-Shaabi

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 2019

Iran

Swamped in a triple crisis

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Monday, June 3, 2019

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Related Books

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Edited by Suzanne Maloney

2020

Brookings FOCUS Book

By Steven Pifer and Michael E. O’Hanlon

2012

Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988

By Bruce Riedel

2012

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Multimedia

A demonstrator holds the picture of Qassem Soleimani during a protest against the assassination of the Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who were killed in an air strike in Baghdad airport, in Tehran, Iran January 3, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Podcast Episode

How will Iran respond to US assassination of Soleimani?

Suzanne Maloney and Adrianna Pita

Friday, January 3, 2020

People watch a TV showing a file picture for a news report on North Korea firing two unidentified projectiles, in Seoul, South Korea, March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Heo Ran

Arms Control

President Trump’s twin nuclear dilemmas

Lindsey Ford and James M. Acton

Asia Society

Monday, October 21, 2019

The fast combat support ship USNS Arctic pulls alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to conduct a replenishment-at-sea in the Mediterranean Sea.

Iran

Is the US on a collision course with Iran?

Suzanne Maloney

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

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