Graeme Wood

America and Iran are playing different games.

Wrecking oil infrastructure is easy; rebuilding it is hard.

With Iran threatening to attack, points of entry to the strait are ready to turn into sprawling maritime parking lots, filled with idle ships waiting for their escorts.

Dubai has welcomed residents from practically everywhere on Earth, and its openness stands in defiant contrast with Iran.

For more than a decade, he has been known more as a regime opponent than as a supporter.

Iran’s possible new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is no reformer.

He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?

The best-planned defenses don’t count for much if the people you trust to run them are ready to sell you out.

Countries such as Saudi Arabia once wondered whether Tehran could be appeased and contained. Now they do not.

Last month, an Iranian exile named Jaber Rajabi reached out to make a case for something between bombing Iran to oblivion and waiting for the regime to collapse.