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People stand at St Peter's Square as Pope Francis leads Angelus prayer from his window at the Vatican, November 16, 2020. Vatican Media/?Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Religion & Politics

States, religions, and power: Highlighting the role of sacred capital in world politics

Gregorio Bettiza

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Iran

Iran’s Shia diplomacy: Religious identity and foreign policy in the Islamic Republic

Edward Wastnidge

Friday, November 20, 2020

Israel

Israel in the Middle East: The next two decades

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

November 2020

2020

Oct

Past Policy 2020 Event

Iran and North Korea: Proliferation and regional challenges for the next administration

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

REFILE - CORRECTING TYPO An Iranian woman holds a red flower as she attends a ceremony to bury remains of 150 "martyrs" from 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran, Iran June 27, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Order from Chaos

How the Iran-Iraq war will shape the region for decades to come

Ranj Alaaldin

Friday, October 9, 2020

Security men wearing protective masks stand on a street during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

Yemen’s disaster becomes “cataclysmic”

Bruce Riedel

Monday, July 6, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi delivers a speech during the vote on the new government at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, May 7, 2020. Iraqi Parliament Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

Was Iraq’s prime minister right to go after an Iranian proxy?

Ranj Alaaldin

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

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Experts

Suzanne Maloney

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

FILE PHOTO: Iran's national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February 10, 2012, a day before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo - RTX2RCC8

Report

The Islamic Republic of Iran four decades on: The 2017/18 protests amid a triple crisis

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Monday, April 27, 2020

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

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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

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council about Iran's alleged non-compliance with a nuclear deal and calling for the restoration of sanctions against Iran at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., August 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

Podcast Episode

What have ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions against Iran accomplished?

Suzanne Maloney and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Personnel assigned to the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conduct small boat operations during a training exercise in the Arabian Sea April 17, 2020. Picture taken April 17, 2020. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brennen Easter/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Iran

US-Iran tensions escalate amid COVID-19

Suzanne Maloney, Brian Hanson, and Ariane Tabatabai

Deep Dish

Thursday, April 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

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