Why has Iran never been fully subdued, colonized, or occupied long-term? The answer lies in a potent mix of geography, culture, military strategy, and the deep-rooted nature of national identity.

Iran has re-emerged at the centre of international attention, following Israeli attacks on the Middle East’s second-largest country on June 13. Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Gulf ...

Felipe Fernández-Armesto reviews "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate" by Robert Kaplan.

Few Americans have forgotten the humiliation of the US Embassy takeover in Teheran by mobs chanting "Death to the Great Satan" and the failure of Jimmy Carter's Delta Force mission to rescue the ...

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari blasted President Donald Trump over his decision to side with Saudi Arabia in a decades-old dispute.

If you want to know what Russia, China or Iran will do next, don't read their newspapers or ask what our spies have dug up—consult a map. Geography can reveal as much about a government's aims ...

Iran’s rulers are proving they have no intention of denuclearizing the easy way, no matter how many carrots Team Trump dangles to get them on board.

Iran threatened the Internet giant with a lawsuit after the search engine dropped the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. Iran warns halt to enrichment not on table in nuclear talks ...

The US military attacked three sites in Iran on Sunday—Natanz, Isfahan and the mountain-buried Fordo—all key parts of ...

Chinese educator Xueqin Jiang predicted a Trump-led US invasion of Iran over a year ago, warning that it would fail, like Athens’ Sicilian Expedition, due to geography and resistance. He also foresaw ...