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Violence Behind Closed Doors: Four Accounts of Marital Rape
A field report based on four Iranian women’s testimonies reveals how sexual violence within marriage remains hidden behind silence, shame, and patriarchal expectations. Marital…
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A Diary from Iran: Fear, Waiting, and Uncertainty on the 23rd Day of War
A diary from war-struck Tehran, where bombs, checkpoints, grief, and ordinary acts of care fold into the struggle to keep living. This is an…
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A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi: What It Means to Die of Grief
A tribute to the Iranian artist whose work turned revolution, exile, and women’s defiance into a universal language of memory. Marjane Satrapi, creator of…
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Beyond Missiles: War’s Impact on Children with Disabilities and Additional Support Needs
For many children in Iran, war continues in the body, memory, sleep, fear, and the collapse of fragile routines. The news was brief. It…
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Field Report from Iran: War’s Wound on the Health System
War has turned access to medicine into a classed ordeal, leaving patients to search, wait, pay, and fear what comes next. War does not…
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Iranian Passports Revoked in Armenia: A Field Report on the Islamic Republic’s New Forms of Repression
After the January 2026 uprising, the Islamic Republic expanded repression beyond Iran, targeting dissidents’ legal identity and freedom of movement. After the January 2026…
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The War Comes Home: A Field Report on Domestic Violence
As war, unemployment, and inflation deepen Iran’s crisis, working-class women and children absorb its violence inside the home. In the months during which Iran’s…
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Below the Line of Survival: Sanctions as Warfare, Austerity as Policy
Before the bombs fell, millions in Iran were already being pushed below survival by sanctions, inflation, austerity, and collapsing wages. Before the U.S. and…
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Iranians in Armenia: No Return, No Stability, Only Survival
Iranians fleeing repression, war, and internet shutdowns find precarious survival in Armenia, where delivery work offers cash but no protection or future. The 40-day…
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Under Bombs and Checkpoints: A Voice from Tehran on War, Survival, and a Struggle Made Harder
A woman in Tehran describes fear, displacement, checkpoints, collapsing livelihoods, and a war that has tightened repression instead of opening any path for resistance.…
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Decapitation Strike, Mass Retaliation, Regional Spillover: Khamenei and Top Commanders Killed as War Spreads
Strikes reportedly hit Tehran’s leadership compound and military sites nationwide; Iran answered with rapid missile waves as explosions, interceptions, and base alerts spread across…
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What Are People in Iran Saying About the Prospect of War?
Iran is suspended between war and prolonged uncertainty, drifting from fear into numb exhaustion as everyday talk swings between hope, rage, and the fading…