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Arash Azizi

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Aug 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Arash Azizi

    Is Mojtaba Khamenei Dead? (opens the original)

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    Last Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei hosted a wake for his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Among the thousands who thronged Tehran’s biggest mosque were the country’s most prominent political figures and several of the elder Khamenei’s sons. One person was notably absent: Mojtaba, the event’s official host. Almost six months since his anointment, Iran’s supreme leader has been entirely obscured from the public eye. Not a single contemporaneous picture, video, or

  2. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Arash Azizi

    Tehran Has to Make a Choice (opens the original)

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    Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. When the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey got together last week to forge a new defense agreement, they emphasized that their pact wasn’t aimed at any particular country. But one country was surely on everybody’s mind: the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has positioned itself as the most overtly anti-Western state in the region, and the coming together of three prominent Muslim-majority countries aligned with the West, two of w

  3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Arash Azizi

    Iran’s War Within (opens the original)

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    For the past few months, Iran has intermittently fought a war with the United States, Israel, and its Arab neighbors. But throughout this period, it has never stopped waging war on its own citizens. The Islamic Republic is executing Iranians in record numbers and has sharpened its tools of repression. Such tactics have never succeeded in pacifying Iranian society for long. Today, some civil-society leaders, and even figures inside the establishment itself, fret that the regime’s heavy domestic h

  4. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Arash Azizi

    Where the War Is Still a War (opens the original)

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    An adviser to Iran’s negotiating team recently said that Tehran should ready itself for years of “neither war, nor peace.” The phrase has become popular among Iranian political analysts trying to make sense of an ostensibly ambiguous situation: The conflict is supposedly over, but Iran’s military keeps striking ships and U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, and the United States keeps bombing Iran. The people of Bandar Abbas, a port city of about half a million on Iran’s southern coast, do not find

  5. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Arash Azizi

    Canada Should Start Talking With Iran (opens the original)

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    Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Leave it to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to casually drop a policy bombshell in a press conference. Two weeks ago, he pointed out that Canada’s lack of diplomatic ties with Venezuela had hampered its ability to respond to the horrific earthquake there, and so he proposed reopening the Canadian embassy in not only Caracas but also Tehran. The suggestion has enraged many of the victims and fierce opponents of the Islamic Republic who

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