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Iran’s leadership prioritizes missile power over basic welfare, pouring scarce resources into the military amid inflation, poverty, drought and collapse,...

Isfahan faces converging crises (vanishing water, land subsidence, air pollution, and a dying wetland), showing how unbalanced industrial growth can...

Amid shifting regional power and U.S. pressure, Iraq’s post-Tishreen politics reveal Tehran’s shrinking leverage as militias face disarmament, elections loom,...

Iranian security forces raided and detained several critical scholars, targeting a broad progressive intellectual current to shrink cultural space and...

The Ansari family created its own bank, lent billions to its companies, and turned political and religious connections into protection—until...

Tehran wavers between war readiness and revolt control, pushing “Cold War” narratives as scarce resources and fracturing proxies deepen paralysis—shifting...

Parliament research shows Iran’s mining sector fosters rent-seeking and monopolies, sidelines local communities, and—rather than driving sustainable development—remains primarily extractive,...

Systemic denial of identity papers forces Baloch children into hazardous seasonal labour, deadly transport, and school dropout—entrenching intergenerational poverty amid...

Tehran’s core dilemma is internal: nuclear, missile, and proxy capabilities have become identity rather than instruments. Survival hinges on de-sanctifying...

Amid renewed sanctions and regional isolation, Tehran seeks a “third way” of survival through China and Russia—but without real integration,...