Iran's disputed uranium enrichment drive is nearing a point of no return and European partners to a moribund 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran should consider reimposing sanctions if there is no progress with Tehran,

Richard Haass is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Counselor at Centerview Partners, and the author of a weekly newsletter, Home & Away.

Tehran is bracing for a tough confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding a weak hand after setbacks in 2024.

Turkey shows increasing signs that it may add to the nuclear crisis in the Middle East by pursuing its own nuclear weapon.

Israel blew up an Iran sponsored Syrian missile factory after its elite commandos raided it last September. The missiles posed an existential threat to Israel amid its war against Tehran's proxies.

President Biden was presented scenario and response options on how to handle Iran should it make advances in developing a nuclear weapon, though the president has not signed off on hitting Tehran's program.

The Islamic Republic of Iran executed over 1,000 prisoners in 86 prisons across the country in 2024, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The report says the death toll is “an unprecedented figure in the past three decades,” and represents an increase of 16% from the 864 executions conducted in 2023.

The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S. warrant have grown even more intertwined

Already shaken and crisis-hit after Soleimani, the Quds Force has been commanded by a low-charisma successor and remains on a path of diminishing influence, with its operational capability targeted by deadly Israeli campaigns and crippled by the fall of the Syrian regime.

Trump was considered reckless for wanting to start a war at the end of his term. Now, Biden is doing the same.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the Iranian nuclear programme was approaching the point of no return, adding that France would need to have a strategic discussion regarding Iran with U.