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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,...

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...