--- title: Hamidreza Azizi | TIME description: Hamidreza Azizi is a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the author of The Axis of Resistance: Iran, Israel, and the Struggle for the Middle East. canonical: https://time.com/author/hamidreza-azizi/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/hamidreza-azizi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hamidreza Azizi ## Hamidreza Azizi Hamidreza Azizi is a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the author of _The Axis of Resistance: Iran, Israel, and the Struggle for the Middle East._ ## Hamidreza Azizi *  Jul 30, 2026 ### [Why Iran Cannot Fight a Forever War](https://time.com/article/2026/07/30/iran-america-hormuz-forever-war/) Iran has disrupted global energy supplies and imposed costs on the United States and its allies, but... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 19, 2026 ### [The 60-Day Test: What Iran’s Agreement with the United States Really Means](https://time.com/article/2026/06/19/iran-united-states-agreement-nuclear-program-war-israel-lebanon/) The United States and Iran will measure each other’s will to implement their agreement and determine... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 9, 2026 ### [The New Leaders Calling the Shots in Iran](https://time.com/article/2026/05/06/irans-new-leaders/) No longer the ultimate source of authority, the Supreme Leader is now at the center of a complex sys... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 22, 2026 ### [Iran’s Supreme Leader No Longer Reins Supreme](https://time.com/article/2026/04/21/war-iran-mojtaba-khamenei-supreme-leader/) Since the war, the Islamic Republic has been operating less as a hierarchy organized around a single... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 2, 2026 ### [After Khamenei: What Iran, and the World, Face Next](https://time.com/7381954/iran-ayatollah-khamenei-trump-israel/) Long ago, the Islamic Republic learned to distribute coercive power across institutions to enable th... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":"summary\_large\_image","\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/hamidreza-azizi/","name":"Hamidreza Azizi"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/hamidreza-azizi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/hamidreza-azizi/"},"name":"Hamidreza Azizi","jobTitle":"","description":"Hamidreza Azizi is a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the author of The Axis of Resistance: Iran, Israel, and the Struggle for the Middle East.","url":"https://time.com/author/hamidreza-azizi/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```