The United States can win a war of attrition against Iran by empowering the Iranian people, imposing economic and geopolitical pressure, and aligning U.S. strategy with the aspirations of the Iranian

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined his counterparts from the G7 just 24 hours after Trump's latest round of insults lobbed at NATO and as instability in oil markets persisted with the Iran war entering its fourth week.

Iran is abandoning calibrated retaliation for rapid escalation—expanding the war across the region and raising stakes globally. The Middle East Program breaks down Tehran’s strategy with two new charts mapping horizontal and vertical escalation.

An emboldened new Iranian leadership has vowed not to capitulate.

A ceasefire push, a tense exchange with Benjamin Netanyahu, and a delicate effort to straddle MAGA hardliners and swing voters.

Iran has sent waves of missiles and drones at Israel and Gulf states in recent weeks and shot down an American fighter jet on Friday.

Iran appears to have adopted a “calibrated strategy” in the Strait of Hormuz — allowing only certain vessels to pass through the crucial waterway.

In a 1974 interview with the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the US journalist Mike Wallace briefly referred to the dispute over the naming of what has been generally called “Sinus Persicus” (Persian Gulf) since ancient times – and what Wallace called “the Gulf”.

Tehran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz is complicating President Trump’s exit strategy from the Iran war. Trump in a Wednesday night address to the nation dismissed concerns about