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1.A Separation(2011)
PG-13|123 min|Drama, Thriller
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A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Director:Asghar Farhadi| Stars:Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Votes:197,982|Gross:$7.10M
2.Mulan 2: The Final War(2004 Video)
G|79 min|Animation, Action, Comedy
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While preparing for their wedding, Shang and Mulan are suddenly sent off on a secret mission. Mushu starts to meddle, and a surprise attack by Mongolians doesn't help either.
Directors:Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland| Stars:Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu
Votes:18,988
3.The Other Side of the Wind(2018)
R|122 min|Drama
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A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.
Director:Orson Welles| Stars:John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg
Votes:4,541
4.The Salesman(2016)
PG-13|124 min|Drama, Thriller
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While both participating in a production of 'Death of a Salesman,' a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Director:Asghar Farhadi| Stars:Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati, Babak Karimi
Votes:41,622|Gross:$2.40M
5.Children of Heaven(1997)
PG|89 min|Drama, Family
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After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to 'win' a new pair.
Director:Majid Majidi| Stars:Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi
Votes:53,703|Gross:$0.93M
6.Under the Shadow(2016)
PG-13|84 min|Drama, Horror, Thriller
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As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director:Babak Anvari| Stars:Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi
Votes:18,766|Gross:$0.03M
7.1st Born(2018)
79 min|Comedy
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Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.
Directors:Ali Atshani, Sam Khoze| Stars:Val Kilmer, Denise Richards, Taylor Cole, Tom Berenger
Votes:34
8.Alles über Elly(2009)
119 min|Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Director:Asghar Farhadi| Stars:Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Merila Zare'i
Votes:38,361|Gross:$0.11M
9.Le passé - Das Vergangene(2013)
PG-13|130 min|Drama, Mystery
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An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Director:Asghar Farhadi| Stars:Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet
Votes:41,246|Gross:$1.33M
10.3 Faces(2018)
12|100 min|Drama
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Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
Director:Jafar Panahi| Stars:Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei
Votes:1,869|Gross:$0.07M
11.I Am a Mother(2012)
90 min|Crime, Drama
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Ava is sentenced to capital punishment for the murder of saeed, the friend of his father and her lover who had raped her.
Director:Fereydoun Jeyrani| Stars:Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani, Habib Rezaei, Hengameh Ghaziani
Votes:905
12.6.5 Toman Per Meter(2019)
130 min|Action, Crime, Drama
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The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
Director:Saeed Roustayi| Stars:Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani
Votes:944
13.Certified Copy(2010)
Not Rated|106 min|Drama, Romance
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In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson
Votes:18,235|Gross:$1.34M
14.The Warden(2019)
100 min|Drama, Mystery, Romance
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A prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Colonel Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing.
Director:Nima Javidi| Stars:Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Setareh Pesyani, Mani Haghighi
Votes:296
15.Close Up(1990)
Not Rated|98 min|Biography, Crime, Drama
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The true story of Hossain Sabzian that impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah
Votes:12,542|Gross:$0.00M
16.Eine moralische Entscheidung(2017)
104 min|Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Kaveh Nariman is a coroner in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
Director:Vahid Jalilvand| Stars:Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Aghaee, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakieh Behbahani
Votes:1,715|Gross:$0.04M
17.Taste of Cherry(1997)
Not Rated|95 min|Drama
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An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Votes:19,114|Gross:$0.31M
18.Sharayet - Eine Liebe in Teheran(2011)
R|107 min|Drama
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A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Director:Maryam Keshavarz| Stars:Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa
Votes:7,059|Gross:$0.44M
19.Beyond the Clouds(2017)
120 min|Drama, Family
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When on the run from the cops , Amir finds his estranged sister Tara, who in a bid to protect her brother lands up in jail. Their entire lives have been clouded by despair as unexpectedly the light shines on them from Beyond the Clouds.
Director:Majid Majidi| Stars:Ishaan Khattar, Malavika Mohanan, Goutam Ghose, Sharada
Votes:1,481
20.Ten Little Indians(1974)
PG|98 min|Mystery, Thriller
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Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Director:Peter Collinson| Stars:Charles Aznavour, Maria Rohm, Adolfo Celi, Stéphane Audran
Votes:2,423
21.Muhammad: The Messenger of God(2015)
162 min|Biography, Drama, History
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The events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.
Director:Majid Majidi| Stars:Mahdi Pakdel, Sareh Bayat, Mina Sadati, Ali Reza Shoja-Nuri
Votes:7,490
22.Life+1Day(2016)
95 min|Drama
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Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Director:Saeed Roustayi| Stars:Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Shabnam Moghadami
Votes:6,303
23.F for Fake(1973)
PG|89 min|Documentary
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A documentary about fraud and fakery.
Directors:Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach| Stars:Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach, Elmyr de Hory
Votes:13,247
24.Turtles Can Fly(2004)
PG-13|98 min|Drama, War
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Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
Director:Bahman Ghobadi| Stars:Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Votes:16,263|Gross:$0.26M
25.The Lizard(2004)
115 min|Comedy, Drama
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A recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.
Director:Kamal Tabrizi| Stars:Parviz Parastui, Bahram Ebrahimi, Shahrokh Foroutanian, Farideh Sepah Mansour
Votes:11,406
26.24 Frames(2017)
Not Rated|114 min|Drama
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24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami
Votes:910|Gross:$0.03M
27.The Color of Paradise(1999)
PG|90 min|Drama, Family
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The story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.
Director:Majid Majidi| Stars:Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari
Votes:14,136|Gross:$1.81M
28.The Wind Will Carry Us(1999)
Not Rated|118 min|Drama
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Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi
Votes:7,228|Gross:$0.21M
29.Fireworks Wednesday(2006)
Not Rated|102 min|Drama, Mystery, Romance
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On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks -- a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.
Director:Asghar Farhadi| Stars:Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pantea Bahram
Votes:8,428
30.And Life Goes On(1992)
95 min|Adventure, Drama
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A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hocine Rifahi, Ferhendeh Feydi
Votes:3,346
31.Sheeple(2018)
103 min|Crime, Drama
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The story of a gang of drug dealers in the south of Tehran who has sheltered many youngsters and orphans from the streets. Shahin and Shakoor who are brothers are leading the gang but when ... See full summary »
Director:Houman Seyyedi| Stars:Navid Mohammadzadeh, Farhad Aslani, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Marjan Ettefaghian
Votes:1,434
32.Paboos(2019)
30 min|Animation, Action, Adventure
A cop in the rural city of Busan will help Paboo escape from the government who is looking to capture him.
Directors:Kwang-Hyun Park, Mehdi Yarmohamadi| Stars:Dong-seok Ma, Sang-Hyun Yoon, Sang Hyun Uhm, So-yeong Hong
33.September 11(2002)
Unrated|134 min|Drama
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The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.
Directors:Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic| Stars:Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi
Votes:5,227
34.Cold Sweat(2018)
85 min|Drama, Sport
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Afrooz is the captain of the women's futsal team in Iran. After 11 years of hard work, her dream comes true: Iran is in the final of the Asian Nations Cup. But when she embarks for Malaysia... See full summary »
Director:Soheil Beiraghi| Stars:Baran Kosari, Amir Jadidi, Leili Rashidi, Hoda Zeinolabedin
Votes:203
35.Through the Olive Trees(1994)
G|103 min|Drama
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A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film Zendegi va digar hich (1992).
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai
Votes:4,889|Gross:$0.04M
36.Taxi Tehran(III) (2015)
Not Rated|82 min|Comedy, Drama
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Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Director:Jafar Panahi| Star:Jafar Panahi
Votes:11,885|Gross:$0.32M
37.Wo ist das Haus meines Freundes?(1987)
83 min|Drama, Family
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An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Iran Outari
Votes:7,926
38.The Monster(2019– )
60 min|Comedy, Drama
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Houshang is a simple and honest teacher who is satisfied with his life and does not have much interest in the world, but unwittingly goes in a way that changes his life and enters the ... See full summary »
Stars:Farhad Aslani, Mohammad Bohrani, Mehran Modiri, Sima Tirandaz
Votes:206
39.Shahrzad(2015– )
60 min|Crime, Drama, History
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When a windstorm happens in life, love is the first victim. In Iran, Tehran, 1953.
Stars:Taraneh Alidoosti, Mostafa Zamani, Shahab Hosseini, Parinaz Izadyar
Votes:4,600
40.The Load(2018)
98 min|Drama
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Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying ... See full summary »
Director:Ognjen Glavonic| Stars:Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic, Tamara Krcunovic, Ivan Lucev
Votes:398
41.Das Lied der Sperlinge(2008)
PG|96 min|Drama, Family
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When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes ... See full summary »
Director:Majid Majidi| Stars:Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamid Aghazi
Votes:8,300|Gross:$0.12M
42.Devil's Daughter(2019)
97 min|Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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The story of the devil's daughter who is seeking for God's forgiveness comes to earth to find a way to make up for what her father has done. Trying to find a medium to compensate for her ... See full summary »
Director:Ghorban Mohammadpour| Stars:Hamid Farokhnezhad, Esha Gupta, Gulshan Grover, Jackie Shroff
Votes:7
43.When the Moon Was Full(2019)
137 min|Crime, Drama, Romance
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In the market Abdolhamid meets Faezeh and falls in love with her. They get marry and begin their life. But after a while Faezeh becomes aware of Abdolhamid's family in Sistan and ... See full summary »
Director:Narges Abyar| Stars:Elnaz Shakerdust, Hootan Shakiba, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Pedram Sharifi
Votes:129
44.Ten(2002)
Not Rated|94 min|Drama
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A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Director:Abbas Kiarostami| Stars:Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Akbari
Votes:6,218|Gross:$0.11M
45.Beautiful City(2004)
101 min|Drama
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Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, 'Beautiful City' is a cinematic gem not to be missed. Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre ... See full summary »
Director:Asghar Farhadi| Stars:Taraneh Alidoosti, Faramarz Gharibian, Babak Ansari, Hossein Farzi-Zad
Votes:4,240
46.Pig(2018)
104 min|Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Iranian directors are getting slaughtered by an unknown serial killer and a blacklisted director, Hasan Kasmai, is curious about only one thing: Why isn't the killer after him?
Director:Mani Haghighi| Stars:Hasan Majuni, Leila Hatami, Leili Rashidi, Parinaz Izadyar
Votes:878
47.Offside(I) (2006)
PG|93 min|Comedy, Drama, Sport
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Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.
Director:Jafar Panahi| Stars:Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani
Votes:6,858|Gross:$0.18M
48.Baran(2001)
PG|94 min|Drama, Romance
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In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Director:Majid Majidi| Stars:Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub
Votes:7,281|Gross:$0.13M
49.Disappearance(2017)
89 min|Drama
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During a dramatic night, two young lovers run from hospital to hospital seeking for an help for some complications after their first time. They'll have to confront with the indifference of some doctors and avoid them to call their parents.
Director:Ali Asgari| Stars:Nazanin Ahmadi, Pedram Ansari, Sadaf Asgari, Mohammad Heidari
Votes:297
50.When Did You See Sahar Last Time?(2016)
102 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
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The movie is about human rights especially women rights which describing worse Mindset of people about women`S position in society ... the movie starts like: Sahar`s mother is in the police... See full summary »
Director:Farzad Motamen| Stars:Fariborz Arabnia, Siamak Safari, Zhaleh Sameti, Alireza Sani Far
Votes:23
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Sometimes it’s important to write a column about something you’re pretty sure isn’t going to happen. In this case, that thing is war with Iran, which Donald Trump clearly doesn’t want, and which he will therefore probably avoid. But since the president’s current foreign policy is making war more likely, it’s still worth saying clearly that it would be a terrible idea for the United States to enter into a serious armed conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In the past I have argued that there is a certain coherence to the Trump foreign policy, even if it’s just an accidental synthesis of a chaotic White House’s competing impulses. According to that synthesis, recent American presidents have been overly optimistic about democratic transformation, embracing naïvely utopian hopes in the Islamic world and naïvely accommodating the rise of China. So what is needed instead is a retrenchment in the greater Middle East, an abandonment of occupations and nation-building efforts and a return to kill-your-enemies, back-your-friends realpolitik, which in turn will make it easier for the United States to pivot to a more confrontational approach with Beijing.
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In practice, this retrenchment has included backing out (or trying to) from the Bush-era military commitment to Afghanistan and jettisoning the Obama-era effort to woo Iran into détente. Spun in realpolitik terms, the Trump White House’s hard line toward Tehran reflects a belief that the mullahs’ enmity is an ineradicable fact, that deals with them in one area inevitably just enable aggression elsewhere, and that it’s better to just back our Sunni and Israeli allies rather than reaching for an unlikely realignment and just reaping more mischief in return.
But the (arguable) coherence of this approach has been breaking down as the Trump administration has moved into its “maximum pressure” phase of sanctions against Tehran. Because if you impose maximum pressure on a regional power you are, by definition, no longer trying to maintain a Middle Eastern status quo while pivoting to Asia. Instead, you’re effectively returning to the last two administration’s more dramatic Middle East ambitions: You are assuming either that some great diplomatic coup awaits (so Obama was right to seek détente, just wrong to settle) or that your pressure will lead to regime change and democratization (so Bush was right about the freedom agenda after all).
I suspect that Trump is making the first assumption, imagining all this pressure as a prelude to a dramatic deal, while John Bolton and Mike Pompeo are making the second one, imagining the Iranian regime suddenly buckling like the Soviet Union in 1991.
But whatever the core assumption, the maximalist approach inevitably increases the risk of war. If the White House is wrong about the Iranian regime’s willingness to make more concessions, then they’re turning a dial that can produce only two policy responses: endurance or armed reaction. And if they’re right that regime change is a possibility, then the regime they’re trying to change will become more likely to lash out the closer it gets to its own breaking point.
Either way, there is nothing about the current situation in the Middle East, or globally, that makes the chance of war with Iran worth taking — as hawks as well as doves concede.
For instance: National Review’s David French, generally far more hawkish than I am, describes a potential conflict with Iran as possibly worse than any of our wars since 9/11, and a terrible idea “absent the most serious, urgent and compelling need.” David Frum, once a notable Iraq war supporter, writes that war with Iran would recapitulate our Iraq blunders on “a much bigger scale, without allies, without justification, and without any plan at all for what comes next.”
There is no explicitly pro-war rejoinder to these points; there’s the only the sort of half-hawkish argument offered by Eli Lake of Bloomberg, who writes that of course nobody wants war, and the recent flurry of U.S. moves is just all about establishing deterrence.
But even Lake acknowledges that “this strategy is fraught,” and “as tensions rise, so does the risk of miscalculation.” Which brings us back to the question of whether the larger context in which tensions are rising, the broad “maximum pressure” approach by the U.S., makes clear strategic sense.
I think that it does not. The United States can treat Iran as an enemy without going all in for brinksmanship; it can leave the nuclear deal without taking steps that make a conventional war more immediately likely.
Trump’s 2016 campaign rhetoric made a case against a hawkish Republican foreign policy consensus that seemingly wanted to confront all our enemies, at once, everywhere. The president is now in the middle of a trade war with China that by his own logic is far more important to long-term American interests than some immediate breakthrough or regime breakdown in Tehran. So he should return to that campaign-season wisdom, and to the maxim it suggested: Whenever possible, one war a time.
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