Author: Michel Shehadeh

Iran is not merely another nation-state on the map. It is one of history’s great civilizations, a country whose identity cannot be confined by geography or measured within the lifespan of a modern political order. […]

History rarely announces itself when it turns. Empires do not collapse in a single dramatic moment; they erode over time, often unnoticed, until one crisis exposes what has long been true. For Britain, that moment […]