That seems unthinkable for a clerical regime rooted in deep distrust of America - among its most ideological elements there is burning hostility towards the country they labelled long ago as the ...

As the United States and Israel expand their war and Iran continues to launch retaliatory strikes, governments across the region are finding their domestic politics thrown into disarray.

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