Iran

Iraqi people gather during a funeral procession for militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed by U.S. air strike at Baghdad airport, in Basra, Iraq, January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Essam al-Sudani

Order from Chaos

Stuck in the middle: Iraq and the enduring conflict between United States and Iran

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Three key insights for US policy in light of recent escalation with Iran

Mara Karlin

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Handout picture of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading the main weekly Muslim Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran on January 17, 2020. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Order from Chaos

Iran’s leaders have a problem they can’t fix

Suzanne Maloney

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Iraq

US-Iran tensions are set to widen Iraq’s sectarian divide

Galip Dalay

Monday, January 13, 2020

Blog Posts

Iranian protesters demonstrate following a tribute for the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 in front of the Amirkabir University in the capital Tehran, on January 11, 2020.Photo By Ali Shaeigan/Parspix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Order from Chaos

The US-Iran crisis has calmed down — but things won’t ever go back to how they were before

Christopher Clary and Caitlin Talmadge

Friday, January 17, 2020

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 15, 2020. Official President website/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Order from Chaos

Is deterrence restored with Iran?

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 16, 2020

WASHINGTON, USA - The US Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper speaks to the press during a press conference at the Pentagon Information Room in Washington, DC, on January 7, 2020. Mark Esper justified the military operation that, last Friday, ended the life of Iranian General Soleimani when he was in Baghdad. In addition, he explained that the US does not seek to start a war, but ?is prepared to end one? in case a conflict erupts

Order from Chaos

Why did the Pentagon ever give Trump the option of killing Soleimani?

Alice Friend, Mara Karlin, and Loren Dejonge Schulman

Tuesday, January 14, 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

Upcoming

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

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

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Global Trade

What role do sanctions play in US foreign policy?

David Dollar and Elizabeth Rosenberg

Monday, May 13, 2019

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