LEBANON Parliament Monday nominated Najib al-Miqati to head a new government. The country has had only a caretaker cabinet since August 2020, when Prime Minister Hassan Diab resigned with his ministers following the catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port. Miqati is a billionaire businessman who has been premier twice before. He …

The United States and Iran seem to be hardening their positions in advance of a resumption of negotiations to revive a 2015 international nuclear agreement once Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi takes office in early August. Concern among supporters of the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program which former US President …

Despite more than forty years of living under a rigid and repressive theocratic regime, Iranians are not people to take government failure or flagrant abuse of power lying down. Time and again they have demonstrated a willingness to stand up and be counted, defying the determined efforts of the state’s …