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Tag: Iran Protest 2026
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Under Threat, At the Table: Has Trump Dropped the Strike Option?
Amid heightened U.S. military buildup, Tehran signals possible talks. The author argues Trump hasn’t retreated—pressure and diplomacy move together, while Iran negotiates from unprecedented…
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Iran’s January 2026 Crackdown: Disputed Death Tolls, a Prolonged Internet Blackout, and Escalating Repression
Conflicting death and arrest figures, testimony of indiscriminate and targeted shooting, allegations of extortion for bodies, and a prolonged internet blackout point to a…
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Turning Doctors into Partners in the State Narrative
Eleven days after the crackdown, Pezeshkian urged doctors to align with the official narrative and prioritize “calming” interventions—while hospital accounts describe systematic, targeted lethal…
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Mass Killing, Then Panic: The Islamic Republic’s Post-Crackdown Crisis
Khamenei’s personalized rule has left the Islamic Republic unprepared for a sudden leaderless crisis; after mass killing and war shocks, the system panics, obsessed…
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Blood-Soaked Maturity: Grief, Resistance, and Responsibility After the Mass Killings
After mass killings, this essay centers collective responsibility: rejecting reckless calls and war rhetoric by self-appointed leaders abroad, and turning grief into durable, life-protecting…
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Iran’s Protest Cycles: Exclusion, Contention, and the Path to Anti-Discriminatory Politics
A compact way to read the last decade of Iranian protest waves is to treat them as the political expression of a specific accumulation…
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Day 11 of Iran’s Nationwide Protests: A Human Rights Brief on Killings, Arrests, and Injuries
After 11 days of protests, rights monitors report at least 38 deaths and 2,217 detentions, including many minors, alongside escalating violence, intimidation, and hospital…
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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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An Analysis of Slogans from the First Six Days of the Nationwide Dey 1404 Protests in Iran
Anti-regime slogans are composed of 65% targeting Khamenei/the Islamic Republic, 20% invoking Pahlavi, and 14% focused on economic demands—while democracy, organization, and “Woman, Life,…
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Inside the Streets: Three Eyewitness Accounts from Iran’s Nationwide Protests
Three eyewitness accounts from Tehran and Isfahan show teenagers leading protests, women shielding them, and security forces responding with pellets, batons, and tear gas.…