It is much too early to anoint Ekrem Imamoglu, now effectively the twice-elected mayor of Istanbul, as the New Erdogan—but the willingness of so many, Turks and Turkey-watchers alike, to do so should worry the Old Erdogan. For the first time in the best part of two decades, President Recep Tayyip…

Poor Hassan Rouhani: Iran’s president is so inconsequential that the Trump administration didn’t even bother to impose sanctions on him. The US has now levied them on supreme leader Ali Khamenei and eight military commanders, and is preparing similar measures against Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad…

Iran announced Monday it is 10 days away from breaching the nuclear-stockpile cap imposed by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. For good measure, Tehran is threatening to enrich uranium beyond a 3.67% limit, meant to prevent it from making weapons-grade material, if the European…

Suspicion is now hardening that Iran was behind the attack on the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday morning. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has fingered the Islamic Republic, and American officials have released footage of what purports to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…

Eight years after supplying the spark that lit the Arab Spring, Tunisia is again bracing for political upheaval in 2019. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed is openly scrapping with President Beji Caid Essebsi, who has in turn broken his four-year partnership with the powerful Islamist Ennahda party, the…