Tag: IRan

Isfahan faces converging crises (vanishing water, land subsidence, air pollution, and a dying wetland), showing how unbalanced industrial growth can ...

Amid shifting regional power and U.S. pressure, Iraq’s post-Tishreen politics reveal Tehran’s shrinking leverage as militias face disarmament, elections loom, ...

Iranian security forces raided and detained several critical scholars, targeting a broad progressive intellectual current to shrink cultural space and ...

The Ansari family created its own bank, lent billions to its companies, and turned political and religious connections into protection—until ...

On November 3, 2025, Iranian security forces detained several prominent researchers, economists, and translators in Tehran over their work on ...

When the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a joint statement on October 6, demanding that Iran end ...

Three years after the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, its echoes are still reshaping Iranian politics and identity. For queer Iranians, ...

Three years on from the Jina uprising, the name Mahsa (Jina) Amini—the 21-year-old Kurdish woman killed by Iran’s morality police—has ...

The heavy blows Iran endured during the 12-Day War have left many regional agendas unfinished. The security partnership between Riyadh ...

Babak Shahbazi, born in 1981, is a father of two, with children aged 18 and 12. Prior to his arrest, ...