Commentary
How close is the time when Iran—perhaps when its clerics, or at least the present clerics, have dropped from power—will anxiously court a revived strategic relationship with Israel and the United States?
Viewpoints
Opinion
Is Iran Likely to Come Back Into the Fold?
Iran has great incentive to return to the prosperity of the 1970s that was in part derived from its strong relationship with Israel and the West.
U.S. and Iranian flags in an illustration created on June 18, 2025. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Gregory Copley
Author
Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
