Timeline:Iran

Dated events for Iran, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-08-25

• Iran vows to retaliate after US widens sanctions - almonitor

2026-08-24

• Pakistan’s army chief leaves for Iran - irna

2026-05-08

• Helvetian hypocrisy and Iran - JNS.org

2026-05-01

• Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-26

• Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-25

• Tracking Chinese and Russian Statements on the Iran War - The Washington Institute

2026-04-17

• Damascus, MD - gnews

2026-04-15

• Discover - Twin Cities PBS

2026-04-03

• Winning an Unpopular War: U.S. Strategy in the Iran Conflict - Small Wars Journal

2026-03-25

• Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
• The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-24

• Trump declares victory and claims Iran offers a 'prize' in talks Iran has denied having - NPR

2026-03-08

• Iran’s Risky Gamble - Quillette

2026-03-07

• Purification by fire: The red heifer and Iran - The Jerusalem Post

2026-03-06

• The end of Iran’s strategic patience - Al Jazeera

2026-03-05

• Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-03-02

• Live Updates: U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran widens - PBS

2026-03-01

• Maps and charts of the Iran War - Reuters
• Trump on Iran: 'US will avenge the deaths of Americans' - DW.com

2026-02-28

• Iran After the Ayatollah - Christianity Today

2026-02-27

• Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-10

• Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-01-28

• Iran is out of good options - Defense Priorities

2026-01-17

• Trump Is Considering Bombing Iran. Here’s How Iran Might Respond. - The National Interest

2026-01-16

• Iran Endgame? Protests, Repression, and the Trump Administration - The Washington Institute

2025-12-23

• ‘Strike on Iran’ Filmmakers Were Closely Monitored as They Filmed in Iran for Two Weeks - PBS

2025-12-20

• Iran’s Regime Projects Military Defiance as Domestic Crises Tighten the Squeeze - National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI

2025-12-15

• Opinion | Iran and Its Terrorist Proxies Plot a Comeback - WSJ

2025-12-12

• Msayleh - Human Rights Watch

2025-11-24

• Return of the Nameless Heroes of Iran - WANA News Agency

2025-11-18

• Hamas - Middle East Institute

2025-11-10

• Pakistan Offers Another Vector for U.S.-Iran Diplomacy - Gulf International Forum

2025-11-05

• Iran Update, November 5, 2025 - Critical Threats

2025-11-03

• Iran Policy Memo: What Comes Next? - J Street

2025-10-30

• Iran names new ambassador to Armenia - Armenpress

2025-10-27

• Sink Iran’s Navy - Middle East Forum

2025-10-26

• Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-13

• Iran Update, October 13, 2025 - Critical Threats
• Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-07

• Anything Could Happen in Iran - The Atlantic

2025-10-01

• Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
• Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-30

• The Risk and Reward of Preventive Strikes Against Iran - The Washington Institute

2025-09-28

• Snapback on Iran is anticlimactic in post-airstrike reality - The Jerusalem Post

2025-09-27

• Iran Cannot Support the Two State Solution - RealClearWorld

2025-09-26

• Iran, Russia sign $25B deal to build four nuclear power plants in southern Iran - TRT World
• Israel - General Debate

2025-09-25

• Iran’s Lost Children: Tens of Thousands of Students Sacrificed in the Iran-Iraq War - National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI

2025-09-24

• Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-17

• Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
• History of the Kaaba - TRT World
• Iran Update, September 17, 2025 - Critical Threats

2025-09-05

• Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-09-01

• Iran Update, September 1, 2025 - Critical Threats

2025-08-31

• Iran’s Relations with China and Russia Following the Israel–Iran War - inss.org.il - gnews

2025-08-29

• Iran's Pezeshkian says Iran does not seek war, but Israel, US seek to 'divide, destroy Iran' - Reuters
• The Path to a Good-Enough Iran Deal - Foreign Affairs
• UK, France and Germany move to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran - BBC

2025-08-26

• Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

• Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

• Area: 1,648,195 sq km - CIA World Factbook
• Background: Conservative clerical forces led by Ayatollah Ruhollah KHOMEINI established a theocratic system of government with ultimate political authority vested in a religious scholar known as the Supreme Leader, who is accountable only to the Assembly of Experts -- an elected 88-member body of clerics. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and Shah Mohammad Reza PAHLAVI was forced into exile. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: US-Iran relations became strained when Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979 and held embassy personnel hostage until mid-January 1981. - CIA World Factbook
• Branches: the military forces of Iran are divided between the Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah):; ; Artesh: Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; ; IRGC: Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces; ; Ministry of Interior: Law Enforcement Command (FARAJA); ; Ministry of Intelligence and Security (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Capital: Tehran - CIA World Factbook
• Chief of state: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989) - CIA World Factbook
• Climate: mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian coast - CIA World Factbook
• Equipment: the Iranian military's inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and foreign equipment largely of Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and US origin (US equipment acquired prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979); it also has some military equipment from North Korea such as midget submarines and ballistic missiles; in recent years, Iran has received some newer equipment from Russia; Iran has a defense industry with the capacity to develop, produce, support, and sustain air, land, missile, and naval weapons programs (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Ethnic groups: Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, Baloch, Arab, Turkmen, and Turkic tribes - CIA World Factbook
• Expenditures: 2% of GDP (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Government type: theocratic republic - CIA World Factbook
• Head of government: President Masoud PEZESHKIAN (since 30 July 2024) - CIA World Factbook
• Languages: Persian Farsi (official), Azeri and other Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Arabic - CIA World Factbook
• Legal system: religious system based on secular and Islamic law - CIA World Factbook
• Life expectancy: 75.6 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Literacy: 86% (2016 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan - CIA World Factbook
• Major urban areas: 9.500 million TEHRAN (capital), 3.368 million Mashhad, 2.258 million Esfahan, 1.721 million Shiraz, 1.661 million Tabriz, 1.594 million Karaj (2023) - CIA World Factbook
• Median age: 35.2 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur - CIA World Factbook
• Personnel: information varies; up to 600,000 total active armed forces personnel; estimated 400,000 Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (350,000 Ground Forces; 18,000 Navy; 40,000 Air Force/Air Defense Forces); up to estimated 190,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (100-150,000 Ground Forces; 20,000 Navy; 15,000 Aerospace Force; 5,000 Qods Force); estimated 90,000 active Basij Paramilitary Forces (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Population: 89,177,357 (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Religions: Muslim (official) 98.5%, Christian 0.7%, Baha'i 0.3%, agnostic 0.3%, other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Hindu) 0.2% (2020 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Terrain: rugged, mountainous rim; high, central basin with deserts, mountains; small, discontinuous plains along both coasts - CIA World Factbook
• Urbanization: 77.3% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook