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Tag: IRan
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In the Dark: The Mass Killings After Iran’s Internet Blackout
After the January 8 blackout, killings, mass arrests, and hospital intimidation surged as officials downplayed the toll and rights groups warned a massacre unfolded…
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Iran Protests Enter Third Week Amid Reports of Mass Casualties
Iran’s protests enter a third week amid mass casualties, widespread arrests, and an internet blackout, as videos and eyewitness accounts reveal escalating government crackdowns.
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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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Universities in the Grip of Three Crises: Securitization, Marketization and Banalization
On Iran’s Student Day, 16 Azar, universities confront securitization, marketization and banalization while searching for ways to revive a broken, generationally fragmented movement. Every…
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Isfahan in Crisis: When the Heart of Iran Runs Dry
Isfahan faces converging crises (vanishing water, land subsidence, air pollution, and a dying wetland), showing how unbalanced industrial growth can push Iran’s historic cities…
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After Tishreen Movement: How Tehran’s Grip is Waning in Iraq
Amid shifting regional power and U.S. pressure, Iraq’s post-Tishreen politics reveal Tehran’s shrinking leverage as militias face disarmament, elections loom, and Baghdad seeks space…
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A Coordinated Crackdown on Critical Intellectuals in Iran
Iranian security forces raided and detained several critical scholars, targeting a broad progressive intellectual current to shrink cultural space and silence voices linking everyday…
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Ayandeh Bank: How One Family Built a Bank to Feed Its Own Empire
The Ansari family created its own bank, lent billions to its companies, and turned political and religious connections into protection—until the shield around Bank…