Open conflict between rival factions of Iran’s regime over renewed war and foreign infiltration exposes a deepening crisis at the top of power. As the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising approaches, the central question is whether these divisions will create greater space for...
Bread prices surge by as much as 250 percent, while farmers receive low prices for their produce and consumers face mounting costs across essential goods
Iran’s escalating cost-of-living crisis is widening the gap between...
From Kurdish porters and Baluch fuel carriers to Tehran’s street vendors, poverty and the destruction of livelihoods are forcing vulnerable families into dangerous work while state repression deepens their hardship.
When Earning a Living...
The proposed “Virtual Space Regulation” law would expand security control over online activity, enforce identity verification, and preserve a lucrative censorship-driven market as millions of Iranians depend on internet access for their livelihoods.
Iran’s regime has...
Presenting her report to the UN General Assembly, Mai Sato detailed the execution of protesters, mass arrests, enforced disappearances, and systematic efforts to silence victims and conceal human rights violations.
Iran’s regime continues to...
What began as a weekly hunger strike by political prisoners has grown into a nationwide and international campaign challenging the regime’s execution apparatus, with support from families, resistance activists, political figures, and human...
Seven years of mounting economic hardship, deepening political fractures, and the evolution of organized resistance have kept the causes of Iran’s November 2019 uprising alive, making it a defining turning point in the struggle against religious dictatorship.
The November 2019 uprising was not an isolated explosion of public anger that can be confined to the pages of history. To treat it as a concluded episode is to misunderstand the dynamics of Iranian society and the conflict between a population demanding fundamental change and a regime determined to preserve its rule. November 2019 marked a decisive escalation in that confrontation. Its significance lies not only in the scale of the protests...
With schools facing shortages of teachers, facilities, and basic resources, Iran’s president invokes wartime conditions to justify shifting the burden onto citizens, without presenting...
The proposed “Virtual Space Regulation” law would expand security control over online activity, enforce identity verification, and preserve a lucrative censorship-driven market as millions of Iranians depend on internet access for their livelihoods.
Iran’s...
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...
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...
Addressing a conference at Cuneo City Hall in Italy, Mahmoud Hakamian condemns the execution of political prisoners and calls for a democratic republic based on the free vote of the Iranian people.
CUNEO, Italy...
As debates intensify over the scope and duration of U.S. military and economic pressure against Tehran, former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) is urging...
After promises of a secure national cooperation network and claims of tens of thousands of recruits, Reza Pahlavi’s latest digital initiative raises an awkward...
UN General Assembly First Committee debates highlight growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear activities, regional destabilization, and human rights violations
Iran’s nuclear program, regional interference, and...
Presenting her report to the UN General Assembly, Mai Sato detailed the execution of protesters, mass arrests, enforced disappearances, and systematic efforts to silence...
