The rise of the "indoctrinated technocrat";
The IRGC's expanding fortunes;
China's Iranian footprint gets bigger

Iran's regime continues to struggle with Covid...;
...and backtracks on Western vaccine ban;
Iranian-Saudi reconciliation inches forward...or does it?;
A warning over Iran's nuclear progress

Iranian hackers hard at work;
Water protests...and the regime response;
Tehran turns up the heat in Iraq

* * * SPECIAL EDITION: Iran's 2021 election * * *

A coronation in Tehran...;
...amid clerical manipulation...;
...and widespread disaffection; 
The presidency as a stepping stone?

Iran's WMD quest continues...;
...as Congressional republicans take a stand...;
...and the Biden administration offers a sweetener;
A Saudi-Iranian entente