Airstrikes, lockdowns, secret transfers, and shortages have turned prisons into high-risk zones, while authorities restrict information and respond to unrest...
Read moreWashington’s message to the Islamic Republic is blunt: act like a “rational” Middle East player, choose between the U.S. and...
Read moreOn the table are three demands the Islamic Republic may find unaffordable: surrender its nuclear program to avert a U.S....
Read moreA critique of Reza Pahlavi’s emergency blueprint warns that prioritizing technocratic stability and integrating former IRGC specialists could reproduce old...
Read moreTwo first-person accounts—from Tehran and a city in central Iran—trace what the January massacre did to bodies, families, and everyday...
Read moreKhamenei’s exit seems inevitable, but what follows—managed continuity, secular republic, monarchy, or an unstable hybrid—depends on organization, power balances, and...
Read moreAmid heightened U.S. military buildup, Tehran signals possible talks. The author argues Trump hasn’t retreated—pressure and diplomacy move together, while...
Read moreTwo firsthand accounts—from an unnamed city and from Shiraz—describe nights of gunfire and drones, street encirclement and arrests, a near-total...
Read moreDuring Iran’s total communications blackout after the January 8 massacre, Radio Zamaneh returned to shortwave and satellite broadcasts to break...
Read moreKhamenei’s personalized rule has left the Islamic Republic unprepared for a sudden leaderless crisis; after mass killing and war shocks,...
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