Geneive Abdo

A strike on As­sad would abort the re­cent “test­ing of the wa­ters” be­tween US and Iran since Rouhani’s elec­tion.

De­spite in­ter­nal con­flict, mem­bers of Iran’s Green Move­ment keep hope alive that their time will come.

Does Ah­madine­jad’s fall em­pow­er or hurt the West in its trou­bled re­la­tion­ship with the Is­lam­ic re­pub­lic?

A row over who will be­come in­tel­li­gence min­is­ter has trig­gered a show-down be­tween the pres­i­dent and the supreme leader.