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, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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