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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian exchange documents at a partnership agreement signing ceremony in Moscow in January.

Russia hoping for diplomacy to broker Iran nuclear deal

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

A PAINTER repaints an anti-US mural in Tehran last week.

Iran is nervous about the Trump administration, but also defiant

By DAVID M. WEINBERG

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian exchange documents at a partnership agreement signing ceremony in Moscow in January.

Can Putin deliver on mediating on Trump's nuclear talks with Iran?

By DANIEL RAKOV

Iranian missiles are displayed at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran.

Israel, US must strike Iran's nuclear programs multiple times, JINSA head tells ‘Post’

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2025.

Iran ready for indirect talks with US, Khamenei aide says

By REUTERS

A woman poses next to an Iranian flag and photo of the Persian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, during a protest on the day of the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany February 17, 2023.

The US must let Iranians choose their own fate, not dictate their future

By AIDIN PANAHI

A funeral is held for late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, last year. The term ‘Southern Azerbaijan’ refers to the Iranian provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Zanjan, the writer clarifies.

Israel should support the South Azerbaijan's independence from Iran

By MORDECHAI KEDAR

Iranian opposition groups gather to protest in Paris, February 2025.

Understanding and undermining the threat of Iran's fake opposition

By MARZIYEH AMIRIZADEH

Reza Pahlavi, activist, advocate and oldest son of the last Shah of Iran, speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, on October 22, 2024.

'Imagine a new Iran': Reza Pahlavi envisions Iran without Islamic Republic in Nowruz message

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Iranian woman jumps a fire during the Wednesday Fire feast, or Chaharshanbeh Soori, held annually on the last Wednesday eve before the Spring holiday of Nowruz, in Tehran, on March 18, 2025.

Playing with fire, Iran’s youth risk Khamenei’s wrath celebrating Persian festival

By ALEX WINSTON

IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after he votes during runoff parliamentary elections, in Tehran, last Friday. Iran’s regime and its theocratic governance are evidently on a decline, the writer asserts.

Twilight of the Islamic Republic: The rocky road to regime change in Iran has begun

(Illustrative) A silhouette over an Iranian flag.

Former IRGC officers speak out against Islamic regime in rare interview with Israeli media

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks on during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2025.

Is Iran’s regime on the brink? Khamenei’s dialogue suggests so

March 5 2025 Dulles airfield as FBI personnel and our DOJ + CIA partners delivered a terrorist wanted for the Afghanistan Abbey Gate murders.

The new FBI's battle against Iran's expanding terror network

Iranians burn the U.S. flag during the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025.

'Military option' on table to halt Tehran's nuclear threat, Sa'ar warns

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Sahar Shehade stands near banners of former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes last year, during preparations for their funerals at Camille Chamoun Sports city stadium, in Beirut, Lebanon February 22, 2025

Iran officials flock to Beirut for Nasrallah funeral, to show they still back Hezbollah

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

A demonstrator holds a picture of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd (L), who has been sentenced to death in Iran, with his daughter Gazelle Sharmahd during a demonstration for his release in front of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin on July 31, 2023.

Daughter of slain Iranian hostage mourns for Bibas family

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps elite Aerospace force

IRGC commander: Iran poised for conflict, developed advanced missile arsenal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF