T HE LAST time Iran was convulsed by nationwide protests, in 2022, the Arab world was transfixed. The Islamic Republic had spent decades building a network of powerful allies that came to dominate the region. Many Arabs wondered if the prospect of regime change in Tehran offered a chance to throw off Iran’s yoke in their own countries.

As deadly protests shake Iran, the Arab world’s reaction has been strikingly quiet. While many Arab states have long opposed Tehran’s influence, they are now choosing caution over confrontation. Behind the silence lies fear of chaos,

A clear majority of Iranians do not want the theocracy that came to power with the 1979 revolution. They want a secular democracy. But what does public opinion tell us about what that should entail and how this change should be achieved?

The war between Israel and Iran was a test of the relations between Israel and the handful of Arab countries with which it maintains diplomatic ties. The conflict created tensions for the pioneers of Arab-Israeli peace, Jordan and Egypt, the signatories of ...

Oman called on fellow Gulf Arab states to fully engage with Iran and even include it in an expanded regional defense and security architecture. “Over the years the GCC has at best sat back and permitted the isolation of Iran,” said Omani Foreign ...