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NPR's Steve Inskeep revisits a 2009 trip to the childhood home of Iran's Supreme Leader, and asks Iran analysts Barbara Slavin and Karim Sadjadpour about his grip on power today.

Global crude oil prices have eased. Markets are betting that protracted conflict is unlikely. meanwhile, domestic production has helped insulate the U.S. from global price shocks.

President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran on social media and the agreement was immediately tested. We'll hear the latest. And China has been watching developments in the war closely because gets much of its crude oil imports from ...

Over the last two weeks, there has been some support for Israel's attacks on Iran from Gulf Arab states. There are also fears that Israel wants to fashion a new Middle East in its own image.

Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour discusses the war between Israel and Iran, potential fallout from U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites, and how this may affect Tehran's authoritarian regime.

Presidents have been known to use salty language behind closed doors. But President Trump may be the first to very deliberately drop an f-bomb on camera.

Despite separate statements from the two countries saying they agreed to a truce, reports persisted of further airstrikes and counter-strikes.

NPR's Michel Martin asks the Atlantic Council's Jonathan Panikoff whether a ceasefire agreement will stick between two countries that have spent decades antagonizing each other, Israel and Iran.

The U.S. and Iran have had a tense relationship for decades -- but when did that begin? This week, we feature our very first episode about an event from August 1953 -- when the CIA helped to overthrow Iran's prime minister.This episode originally ran ...

President Trump said Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire, ending 12 days of conflict.