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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.…
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Seven Prominent Lecturers at the Tehran University of Art were Banned from Teaching
In Iran, the nationwide protests that started in September 2022, have seen solidarity from the Tehran University of Art expressed through the creation of…
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Iranian Law and Judicial Practice towards Protestors from the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Movement
A recent wave of executions of political prisoners in Iran has raised serious concern about the welfare of political prisoners. In this post by…
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5 Months since Zhina Mahsa Amini’s Death
Tomorrow marks 5 months since the news broke out that a Kurdish woman by the name of Mahsa Amini, Zhina in her mother tongue,…
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Uprisings in Iran and their historical origins: : Dialectics of revolutions and counterrevolutions
The world media is once again full of images, stories, discussions, and trending hashtags about ongoing mass protests in Iran. Those who are familiar…
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Iranian Activist Farhad Meysami Fights for Demands Through Hunger Strike
If you have been following the news in Iran, you may have come across the harrowing picture of a man with a shaved head,…
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How Western governments can help the Iranian people
In fact, the vast majority of the opposition wants change to be achieved through the people and through the involvement of active civil society…
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Navvab Security Ranger Company: Quds Conquerors or Suppressors of the People?
The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is one of the main parts in the Islamic Republic’s repression machine. This military-security institution has recently mentioned new…