Tag: Iran Protest 2026

Amid heightened U.S. military buildup, Tehran signals possible talks. The author argues Trump hasn’t retreated—pressure and diplomacy move together, while ...

Conflicting death and arrest figures, testimony of indiscriminate and targeted shooting, allegations of extortion for bodies, and a prolonged internet ...

Eleven days after the crackdown, Pezeshkian urged doctors to align with the official narrative and prioritize “calming” interventions—while hospital accounts ...

Khamenei’s personalized rule has left the Islamic Republic unprepared for a sudden leaderless crisis; after mass killing and war shocks, ...

After mass killings, this essay centers collective responsibility: rejecting reckless calls and war rhetoric by self-appointed leaders abroad, and turning ...

A compact way to read the last decade of Iranian protest waves is to treat them as the political expression ...

After 11 days of protests, rights monitors report at least 38 deaths and 2,217 detentions, including many minors, alongside escalating ...

After years of accumulated failures, Khamenei faces protests that seek removal, not reform—making repression riskier, compromise impossible, and every move ...

Anti-regime slogans are composed of 65% targeting Khamenei/the Islamic Republic, 20% invoking Pahlavi, and 14% focused on economic demands—while democracy, ...

Three eyewitness accounts from Tehran and Isfahan show teenagers leading protests, women shielding them, and security forces responding with pellets, ...