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Tag: Ali Khamenei
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No Room Left to Maneuver: Khamenei’s Turn to Repression in a Declining Regime
After years of accumulated failures, Khamenei faces protests that seek removal, not reform—making repression riskier, compromise impossible, and every move politically costly. Ali Khamenei,…
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Bread or Missiles? The State’s Official Policy in a Year of Turmoil
Iran’s leadership prioritizes missile power over basic welfare, pouring scarce resources into the military amid inflation, poverty, drought and collapse, leaving governance paralyzed while…
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Hail to the Commander: The Mystagogue’s Hymn
Last March Iran’s national TV broadcast a hymn entitled: “Hail to the Commander.” Who is this Commander?
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Khamenei’s Office finds a way to circumvent US sanctions
In 2019, a secretly quiet company, named Karandish Doran Moaser and seemingly not related to Setad, took over major shares of Barkat. However, according…
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Zamaneh Opinion Panelists: Support for the Letters of Dissidents inside Iran Asking the Supreme Leader to Step Down
The majority of Zamaneh audience who took part in Zamaneh Media’s latest opinion panel say that they support the recent statement of activists inside…
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Mykonos Assassinations: a Cold Case or an Undelivered Message?
Kazem Darabi, who was convicted of involvement in the Iranian state-sponsored assassinations of dissident Kurds on German soil, ended up serving 15 years behind…
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A Former Judge Responsible for Mass Executions Consolidates Leadership Positions
Ibrahim Raisi, a former judge responsible for 1988 mass executions in Iran has emerged as one of the most powerful figures of Iranian politics…
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Iran’s Leader wants support for country’s manufacturing sector
Iran’s Supreme Leader identified the new Iranian year as the year of Iranian Products putting out a symbolic call to the public to direct…
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Iranian Government Responds to the Demand of the Hunger Striking Opposition Leader
Government of Hassan Rouhani has responded to the demands of Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader who was on hunger strike in house arrest. Karroubi…
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Iranian Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Goes on Hunger Strike to Challenge Arrest
Mehdi Karroubi, one of the opposition leaders of Iran’s Green Movement who has been under house arrest since 2010 is now refusing food in…
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The Tale of Woe
by: Assad Binakhahi
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Word on the Street after Moderate’s Landslide Win in Iran
by: Sara Rustampour Iranian people came to streets to celebrate the victory of Hassan Rouhani, the moderate candidate in Iran’s twelfth presidential election. Rouhani…