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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,...

Airstrikes, lockdowns, secret transfers, and shortages have turned prisons into high-risk zones, while authorities restrict information and respond to unrest...

Washington’s message to the Islamic Republic is blunt: act like a “rational” Middle East player, choose between the U.S. and...

On the table are three demands the Islamic Republic may find unaffordable: surrender its nuclear program to avert a U.S....

A critique of Reza Pahlavi’s emergency blueprint warns that prioritizing technocratic stability and integrating former IRGC specialists could reproduce old...

Two first-person accounts—from Tehran and a city in central Iran—trace what the January massacre did to bodies, families, and everyday...

Khamenei’s exit seems inevitable, but what follows—managed continuity, secular republic, monarchy, or an unstable hybrid—depends on organization, power balances, and...