Iran’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...
Read moreAnti-regime slogans are composed of 65% targeting Khamenei/the Islamic Republic, 20% invoking Pahlavi, and 14% focused on economic demands—while democracy,...
Read moreThree eyewitness accounts from Tehran and Isfahan show teenagers leading protests, women shielding them, and security forces responding with pellets,...
Read moreIn 2025, economic breakdown and war shattered the Islamic Republic’s core claim—security—leaving a regime that looks intact yet hollow, like...
Read moreA post-war currency shock sparked bazaar shutdowns in Tehran, then spread through cities and universities, becoming a broader confrontation over...
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