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Across four days in Tehran, Ghazal records war, censorship, class unease, loneliness, and a stubborn hope that survives repression. What...

Three experts reflect on the strike on Asaluyeh, warning of deepening hardship for workers, economic disruption, and a widening regional...

A wider war in the Persian Gulf could unleash an environmental disaster with consequences lasting decades, far beyond the region...

Ali Rasouli argues that Larijani was an executor, not a strategist, and that his assassination matters less than the regime’s...

A woman in Tehran describes fear, displacement, checkpoints, collapsing livelihoods, and a war that has tightened repression instead of opening...

After years as a shadowy power broker, Mojtaba Khamenei must now openly rule a battered system and test whether myth...

The regime must move beyond Khamenei’s legacy to survive, yet its entire power structure is built on that very legacy....

A Tehran resident recounts the first days of war: devastation, fear, looting, and the return of a life once again...

Badamchi argues Iran faces a constitutional turning point: reform from within, or rupture—while war, succession, and regime change pressures reshape...

Khamenei hollowed out the Islamic Republic to build an ummah-centered Islamic government; yet he never produced a viable successor order,...