How a small pro-Iranian lobby became part of a vast messaging machine to push the nuclear deal that helped reshape the Middle East

The Jewish state confronts the possibility of a new front—or two—in its ongoing conflict with a hostile regional power on the rise

Iran Week: Are trees planted in Lebanon along the Israeli border really for ‘nature reserves’?

Iran Week: Here’s what we know about Iran’s secret ballistic missile and nuclear technological exchanges with the defiant rogue state of North Korea

Iran Week: Homosexuals and other sexual minorities face increasingly dire circumstances under the repressive Shiite theocracy

Iran Week: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s astonishing and paradoxical account of his 1963 travels in the Holyland, newly translated and reissued as ‘The Israeli Republic’

Tablet introduces: Iran Week

The former foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal was fired after the AP discovered the columnist was allegedly involved in commercial dealings with an Iranian-born arms dealer

The prominent cleric spent 11 years in prison for preaching religious tolerance, equality, and non-violence inside the repressive theocracy

Why the new Commander-in-Chief has few good options for rebuilding the Middle East order that Obama negotiated away

Patricia Crone, the late scholar of Islam, fearlessly and rigorously explored the origins of Iran’s influential and mystical version of the religion

Elliott Abrams, Paul Berman, Robert Blecher, Hanin Ghaddar, Edward Luttwak, Lee Smith, Nathan Thrall, and Robert F. Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and the Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of the West

The enlightened-benighted paradoxes of the Shia state have deep roots, and relations with Jews are at a historical nadir