By warning of “Syriaization,” authorities shift blame to protesters, normalize unlimited force, and recycle the Syrian playbook: dehumanization, impunity, and...
Read moreAfter the January 8 blackout, killings, mass arrests, and hospital intimidation surged as officials downplayed the toll and rights groups...
Read moreAs protests surged nationwide, Iran’s blackout cut people off from the world, disrupted daily life, and strengthened repression by blocking...
Read moreTehran and other cities face an undeclared curfew, coercion, darkness, and plainclothes repression—de facto martial law after a massacre—despite the...
Read moreIran’s protests enter a third week amid mass casualties, widespread arrests, and an internet blackout, as videos and eyewitness accounts...
Read moreA compact way to read the last decade of Iranian protest waves is to treat them as the political expression...
Read moreAfter 11 days of protests, rights monitors report at least 38 deaths and 2,217 detentions, including many minors, alongside escalating...
Read moreAfter years of accumulated failures, Khamenei faces protests that seek removal, not reform—making repression riskier, compromise impossible, and every move...
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