Iran
Nuclear deals? Sanctions? Proxy wars? This is Vox’s home for explanation and analysis of a key player in the Middle East.
Nuclear guardrails are falling apart — and Donald Trump is about to retake the launch codes.
Hamas survived, but Iran is reeling. How 15 months of destruction changed the Middle East.
How the Assad regime collapsed slowly, then all at once.
Lebanon’s conflict with Israel is deeper than Hezbollah.
After Yahya Sinwar’s death, is a ceasefire in Gaza more likely?
Israel set out to reestablish military superiority. It succeeded — at catastrophic human cost.
With Israel’s Lebanon invasion, the Middle East is on the verge of chaos.
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was killed in an airstrike. What now?
The FBI is now investigating the former president’s claim of Iranian interference with his campaign.
What the attack on US troops in Iraq says about a wider Middle East war.
After strikes in Beirut and Tehran, the region has never been closer to all-out war.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
The Iranian regime is unlikely to change course in the near term, but Ebrahim Raisi’s death could affect crucial succession plans.
Six months in.
And US troops may suffer the consequences.
Adversaries keep chipping away at America’s military credibility. Trump isn’t helping.
Iraq’s prime minister called for an end to US presence after a drone strike killed a senior militia leader.
Seven weeks into the war, 15,000 Palestinians have been killed, and there’s no end in sight.
Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas but haven’t opened new fronts.
Iran likely won’t launch direct attacks against Israel, but the possibility of a regional conflagration is real.
The IDF has launched retaliatory strikes after hundreds of Israeli citizens are dead and thousands wounded.
The jailed activist’s Nobel is also a reminder of Iran’s momentous protest movement.
For Iran’s struggling economy, the deal is more about money.
Why the US is sending 3,000 Marines to secure the world’s oil.
China’s dealmaking heralds the post-America Middle East.
Though the Islamic Republic has a history of protest, this year’s unrest is unique.
Censorship, trolls, and bots: The information war distorting Iran’s protests.
The women and youth-led movement has proven hard to put down.
Iran is in revolt.
The killing of militant leaders sparked clashes that, for now, have ended in a shaky ceasefire.
Trump withdrew from the accord, and Biden is working toward its resurrection.
The number of human-made existential risks has ballooned, but the most pressing one is the original: nuclear war.
Talks are set to resume at the end of the month, but the challenges to reaching an agreement are still immense.
Iranians elected Ebrahim Raisi as the next president in an election rigged in his favor.
Iran has been ramping up its uranium enrichment. The suspected Israeli cyberattack on the Natanz nuclear site might be retaliation for that.
The US and Iran took a small step toward reviving the nuclear deal. But major hurdles still remain before it’s fully alive.
Washington and Tehran will meet indirectly in Austria next week as part of a gathering to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive.
It’s still unclear who launched the rockets, but it strongly resembles past attacks by Iran-backed proxies.
President Biden hasn’t handled Iran and Saudi Arabia like candidate Biden planned.
US and Iran ties are tense. Iran’s rejection of nuclear deal talks won’t help.