Iran Regime’s “Strategic Depth” Under Pressure: How External Expansion Became a Pillar of Survival

Diplomatic isolation, restrictions on regional access, and mounting pressure on the IRGC are exposing the vulnerabilities behind the Iran regime’s decades-long strategy of projecting power beyond its borders. For decades, Iran’s regime has presented its intervention beyond the country’s borders as a matter of national...

Iran’s Cost-of-Living Crisis: When Earning a Living No Longer Pays for Basic Needs

Accounts aired by Iran’s own regime media reveal how soaring prices, stagnant incomes, and restrictions on informal work are pushing more people into economic insecurity. For millions of people in Iran, earning enough to...

From Removing Preferential Currency Rates to Raising Gasoline Prices: How One Price Shock Triggers a New Wave of Inflation

Iran’s regime has repeatedly altered key prices while claiming to protect low-income households. But these measures can trigger cascading increases across housing, food, transportation, and other essential costs. Iran’s regime has repeatedly turned major...

Iran’s Land Subsidence Crisis Expands Tenfold in Eight Years

A Geological Survey official warns that land subsidence now affects nearly 100,000 square kilometers of Iran, with previously isolated zones merging across large parts of the country. Iran’s environmental crisis is taking an increasingly dangerous form...

UN Experts Demand End to Killings of Kurdish Kolbars and Baloch Sukhtbars

UN experts have called on Iran’s authorities to stop using lethal force against Kurdish border couriers and Baloch fuel carriers, warning that reported killings require prompt, independent, and impartial investigations. United Nations human rights...

30 NGOs Warn Iran’s Executions Pose Urgent Atrocity-Prevention Risk

Joint statement to UN Human Rights Council urges immediate action as political prisoners and protesters face execution Thirty human rights organizations have warned the United Nations Human Rights Council that Iran’s escalating use of...

Iran Regime Officials Warn of a “Spark” Becoming a “Flame” as Fear of Popular Anger Grows

Repeated warnings from Iran’s security establishment reveal growing concern that economic grievances, social tensions, and public anger could turn into a new wave of nationwide unrest. A series of increasingly alarmed warnings from Iran’s security and military officials is exposing the regime’s deep concern about the situation inside the country. Rather than projecting confidence in its ability to control society, senior officials are repeatedly warning that a seemingly minor incident could trigger a much larger confrontation. The language is striking. Former police commander Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam recently warned the regime’s intelligence, Basij, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and police forces to remain vigilant because adversaries could turn “every spark” into a “flame”...

Iran’s Medication Crisis Deepens as Regime Policies Put Health Out of Reach

Soaring drug prices, delayed vaccines, unpaid support for patients with serious illnesses, and shortages of essential medicines are placing an increasing burden on Iranian...

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From “Javid Shah” to the Ballot Box: What Does Reza Pahlavi Mean by a Monarchy Decided by Vote?

Reza Pahlavi’s latest remarks have revived a fundamental question for Iranians: Can a genuinely...

When Hereditary Rule Is Presented as Democracy

Examining the arguments being used to promote constitutional monarchy as a democratic solution for...

Iran’s Land Subsidence Crisis Expands Tenfold in Eight Years

A Geological Survey official warns that land subsidence now affects nearly 100,000 square kilometers of Iran, with previously isolated zones merging across large parts of the country. Iran’s environmental crisis is taking an increasingly...

Iran’s Water and Power Crisis Deepens as Basic Services Become a Privilege

From villages receiving drinking water for only two hours a day to muddy tap water in Ahvaz and repeated blackouts in Tehran, Iran’s infrastructure crisis is increasingly becoming a crisis of survival. For millions...

Iran’s Internet Blackout Economy: Billions in Filter-Breaking Fees Fuel Repression and Profiteering

A senior regime official has acknowledged that billions of tomans circulate through Iran’s VPN market, raising fresh questions about who profits from restrictions imposed on millions of internet users. The Iranian regime’s system of...

Resistance Units in Zahedan Honor Bloody Friday Victims and Defy Dictatorship

Young supporters of the PMOI Resistance Units displayed banners and placards in Zahedan commemorating the victims of the 2022 Bloody Friday massacre and the PMOI militia of September 27, 1981, while reaffirming opposition...

Four Years After Mahsa Amini’s Death, Iran’s Regime Revives the Hijab Crackdown

As the fourth anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches, morality patrols and arrests are reportedly returning to Iranian streets,...

The UN Security Council and the Iranian Regime’s New Nuclear Nightmare

After two decades of nuclear brinkmanship, Tehran faces renewed...

Iran Regime Defies Nuclear Oversight While Rebuilding Sensitive Facility

As Tehran blocks IAEA inspections and quietly restores a...

Calls for an Iranian Nuclear Bomb Expose the Regime’s Growing Threat to International Peace

A state-linked media outlet openly advocates nuclear weapons as...

Iran Regime’s “Strategic Depth” Under Pressure: How External Expansion Became a Pillar of Survival

Diplomatic isolation, restrictions on regional access, and mounting pressure on the IRGC are exposing the vulnerabilities behind the Iran regime’s decades-long strategy of projecting...

Iran Regime Officials Warn of a “Spark” Becoming a “Flame” as Fear of Popular Anger Grows

Repeated warnings from Iran’s security establishment reveal growing concern that economic grievances, social tensions, and public anger could turn into a new wave of...

PMOI Resistance Units Mark September 27 Uprising With 60 Activities Across 17 Iranian Cities

Resistance Units commemorate the September 27, 1981 uprising and those executed at Evin while carrying the message of resistance against Iran’s regime into cities...

Iranian Youth Conference in New York Discusses Freedom, Human Rights, and Iran’s Democratic Future

Young Iranians from the United States, Canada, and Europe discuss executions, torture, women’s rights, political participation, and the role of their generation in building...

Iran Regime Puts 51,000 Security Forces on Alert Amid Fear of Renewed Unrest

The cancellation of military and security personnel leave, emergency deployments across Tehran, expanded surveillance, new detention sites, and financial incentives for suppressive forces point...
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