Iran: Country Guide: Websites

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. NPEC educates policymakers, journalists, and university professors about proliferation threats and possible new policies and measures to meet them.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to conduct in-depth, nonpartisan research to improve policy and governance at local, national, and global levels.

The Carnegie Endowment generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of international scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and safeguard peace.

Designed to support global awareness, Gale ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers students to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.

Rising Powers Initiative is a multi-year, cross-national research effort, directed by Dr. Deepa M. Ollapally, that examines the role of domestic identities and foreign policy debates of aspiring powers in Asia and Eurasia.

International travel information, U.S. relationship with Iran overview, and more.

UNdata users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies.

“The Primer” brings together 50 experts—Western and Iranian—in concise chapters on politics, economy, military, foreign policy, and the nuclear program. It chronicles events under six U.S. presidents. It also has leader bios, timelines, data on nuclear sites—and context for what lies ahead. New articles are at the top.

The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world. The work of our scholars and staff advances ideas rooted in our belief in democracy, free enterprise, American strength and global leadership, solidarity with those at the periphery of our society, and a pluralistic, entrepreneurial culture.

The Middle East Program analyzes a wide range of political, security, and socioeconomic issues related to the Middle East and North Africa, with special attention to the ways that changes in the Middle East and North Africa have effects beyond the region.

Chartered by Congress, the Wilson Center provides nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers through deep research, impartial analysis, and independent scholarship.

The Washington Institute seeks to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them.

Praeger Security International: Terrorism, Homeland Security, Strategy (PSI) is an invaluable online resource that presents comprehensive information and unique insights into the international security issues that play a key role in defining our world's identity in the 21st century.

When Al Jazeera launched from the Qatari capital, Doha, on Friday, November 1, 1996, it was the first independent news channel in the Arab world.

Covering American and international news for an online, global audience.

Provides breaking news, multimedia, news and opinion on a variety of topics.

CNN Digital is the world leader in online news and information and seeks to inform, engage and empower the world. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated team in CNN bureaus around the world, CNN’s digital platforms deliver news from almost 4,000 journalists in every corner of the globe.