Iran

ISIS claimed an attack at the heart of another capital today; Tehran. But the terror and tragedy so familiar elsewhere was a new horror for Iran.

Ali Shihabi, the executive director of the Arabia Foundation, and Dr Sanam Vakil, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House, on President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia and how hardliners in Iran are using fear of him to galvanise opposition to President Rouhani.

Dr Mohammed Marandi, professor of American studies at Tehran University, on Iranian/US relations and his country’s role in Syria’s civil war.

The future of Iran’s influence in the region will be shaped by what happens here today, as voters go to the polls to elect a new President. When you ask them, people on the street here see that attack in Syria as simply another hostile act by the United States against Iran. But it would…

Another attempt to broker peace in Syria began in Geneva this week. The Syrian regime and opposition forces agreed four main de-escalation zones in the north. Despite this ‘”truce”, though, there hasn’t been an end to the fighting and killing. There were reportedly more than 200 civilian casualties during last week’s ceasefire alone – half…

President Trump heads to Saudi Arabia tomorrow for a weekend summit with more than fifty Arab and Muslim leaders.

We speak to Dr Abbas Ali Shameli a scholar and preacher based in Qom about recent moderate changes in Iran, and Iran’s connections to the outside world – including Syria.

Ever since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, this place Qom has been the Centre of both political and religious power in Iran.

In a deliberate echo of presidential phrases, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah today issued a joint statement condemning the US missile strike on Syria as having crossed “a red line”.

“You’ve crossed a red line, we’ll respond to any aggression” – the Russian, Iranian and Syrian alliance reacts to Donald Trump’s cruise missiles.

Russia, Iran and Turkey say they’re ready to broker a deal to end the Syrian war after talks in Moscow held without the United States or the UN. The meeting went ahead despite yesterday’s assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey by an off-duty police officer who shouted “don’t forget Aleppo”.

A British-Iranian woman who’s being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin jail has been on hunger strike in protest – and, say her family, she’s at “breaking point”. We talk to her husband Richard Ratcliffe.

The Iranian military releases US Navy personnel on Wednesday morning after detaining them when two American boats strayed into Iranian waters while patrolling in the Gulf.

Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of using an attack on its embassy in Tehran as an excuse to inflame tensions between the two Middle East rivals.

A ceasefire in Yemen takes effect in the midst of a civil war that has led to the deaths of nearly 6,000 people.