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As snapback sanctions bite, Iranians describe rising prices, shrinking wages, and a loss of control over their lives—“working hard when...

Amid intensified crackdowns, Iran’s teachers sustained nationwide organizing, faced mass dismissals and arrests, built cross-movement solidarity, and demanded an end...

At Bu-Ali Sina University, students protest alleged harassment by Iraqi classmates, scholarships tied to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, and campus...

The 12-day war with Israel shattered Khamenei’s long-standing “Leader’s Narrative,” which shielded him from blame and cast crises as the...

In his 100-second short film Cinema’s Blood, writer and filmmaker Ghazi Rabihavi draws inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s Persona to frame...

Amid fears of a renewed Israel-Iran conflict, another danger is quietly looming: the risk of Iran sliding into civil war....

Three years on from the Jina uprising, the name Mahsa (Jina) Amini—the 21-year-old Kurdish woman killed by Iran’s morality police—has...

The heavy blows Iran endured during the 12-Day War have left many regional agendas unfinished. The security partnership between Riyadh...

Babak Shahbazi, born in 1981, is a father of two, with children aged 18 and 12. Prior to his arrest,...

A question often posed by non-Tajik readers and scholars is: Why read Bahmanyar? Some may even ask, who is Bahmanyar?...