Reza Aslan's Blog

President Obama is denouncing a suicide attack by the Sunni terrorists Jundallah that killed 39 in Iran, but is his administration still backing the group? Reza Aslan on how the bombing might bring the two countries together.
A Sunni terrorist...

With three nations recognizing a Palestinian state and the Israelis gobbling up more land in the Occupied Territories, it's time for Mahmoud Abbas to declare statehood-and for Obama to be tested at the U.N. with a vote.
Now that the United States has...

The attack on two of Iran's leading nuclear physicists is likely the work of a joint American and Israeli covert program to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, argues Reza Aslan.
A group of masked assassins on motorcycles pulls up to an idling car....

Iranian lawmakers-including former supporters-have moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for law violations that could land him in prison. Reza Aslan reports on the bombastic leader's flagrant missteps.
There is a joke one hears a lot in Iran...

Iraq's 2,000-year-old Christian community is on the brink of extinction, its members targeted by al Qaeda attacks and fleeing abroad. But Hillary Clinton, the one person who could force the Iraq government to act, is keeping her mouth shut.
A...

Iraq's 2,000-year-old Christian community is on the brink of extinction, its members targeted by al Qaeda attacks and fleeing abroad. But the one person who could force the Iraq government to act is keeping her mouth shut.
A full-scale genocide is...

As President Obama departs Jakarta, the city of his boyhood, he can celebrate Indonesia's turnaround from dictatorship to vital Muslim democracy-and just maybe a vision of the future of Islam.
As President Obama leaves Indonesia behind, a bit earlier...

Lost in the great debate between atheists and theists is the hapless agnostic who just doesn't really know either way, says Reza Aslan. But a new book by Michael Krasny offers a helpful path to the unknowable.
Pity the poor agnostic these days, caught...

Lost in the great debate between atheists and theists is the hapless agnostic who just doesn't really know either way, says Reza Aslan. But a new book by Michael Krasny offers a helpful path to the unknowable.
Pity the poor agnostic these days, caught...

Mohamed ElBaradei wants to bring down the corrupt Mubarak regime. He talks to Reza Aslan about his call for an election boycott, the prospect of violence, and his disappointment with Obama.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the 82-year-old Egyptian diplomat and...