Mobarakeh Steel, reportedly targeted by both the US and Israel, plays an outsize role in Iran’s corruption-riddled economy.

The targeting of major Iranian steel plants by Israeli and US forces is threatening the future of Mobarakeh Steel, one of the largest producers in the MENA region and responsible for as much as 50 percent of Iran’...

The small island tells the story of oil wealth siphoned, culture sidelined, and a landscape steadily militarized in the name of endurance.

Oozing cement has dried around the ancient inscriptions in the rock-cut tombs of Kharg island, the strategic Persian Gulf outpost at the heart of Iran’s current conflict with the United States and Israel....

The former police chief, mayor and manager likes getting his hands dirty in big projects. How will he exploit this moment in the crumbling Islamic Republic to make his next move?

In another era, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf might have been remembered as a mayor-turned-Parliament speaker who liked big projects, inflatable budgets, and was not oppo...

Tracing the kinship networks, ideological lineage, and international footprint of the late principlist’s family

The late principlist politician Ali Larijani, reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike March 16, presided over a political business empire that connected him to familial networks at the top of the Islamic Republic’s power structur...

A closer look at the institutions and relationships underpinning the principlist politician’s influence

Beyond his public political career, Ali Larijani was embedded in a network of media, publishing, and quasi-state institutions tied to Iran’s ruling elite. The principlist politician was killed in an Israeli airstrike on March 17 along with...