A sweeping proposed law could criminalize contact with foreign media, restrict civil society and universities, and place broad areas of cultural and social activity under security control.
The Iranian regime is moving toward a new and potentially far-reaching instrument of repression that could give its...
Long fuel lines and growing public anger coincide with government plans for higher gasoline prices, prompting regime media and officials to warn of potentially broader protests.
Iran’s worsening fuel crisis is generating growing public...
A daily gasoline deficit of up to 15 million liters has left the Iranian regime trapped between supply shortages, inflationary price shocks, and fears of renewed nationwide protests.
Iran’s deepening fuel crisis has once...
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 of people...
The escalating use of the death penalty against protesters and political prisoners demands urgent, coordinated action from the international community before more lives are lost.
The Iranian regime is accelerating its use of executions...
Prison authorities are reportedly denying political prisoners basic necessities, withholding medication, and imprisoning relatives to force detainees to abandon their political positions.
Iranian prison authorities are intensifying pressure on political prisoners and their families...
As war and repression become intertwined in the regime’s strategy for survival, Iranian society is increasingly responding with a unified demand for peace, freedom, and an end to executions.
Iranian society is going through a profoundly painful period. Alongside hunger, poverty, unemployment, and economic insecurity, millions of people have lost another essential element of daily life: a sense of safety.
War and the threats surrounding it have created one source of anxiety. Executions, arrests, and systematic repression have created another. Together, they have devastated the psychological security of Iranian society.
Yet amid this suffering, an important political development is taking shape.
In recent protests, alongside sectoral demands over pensions, wages, and living conditions,...
A soaring cost of basic living, collapsing wage purchasing power, and food inflation expose the structural failure of Iran’s economic model.
Iran’s economic crisis has...
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...
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...
One hundred and twenty years after the Constitutional Revolution, Iran's history tells a consistent story: every generation has risen against absolute rule, rejecting both monarchical and religious dictatorship in pursuit of freedom, national...
Resistance Units in Zahedan display banners rejecting both religious and monarchical dictatorship, reaffirming calls for freedom, independence, and a democratic republic in Iran.
Zahedan Youth Renew Call to Reject Dictatorship
Young people and Resistance Units...
A soaring cost of basic living, collapsing wage purchasing power, and food inflation expose the structural failure of Iran’s economic model.
Iran’s economic crisis has...
A 1953 U.S. diplomatic document and recent appeals by Reza Pahlavi expose a recurring pattern: seeking foreign backing rather than deriving political legitimacy...
Reports of narcotics and psychotropic drugs being sold through some herbal medicine shops expose a dangerous gap between public health needs and regulatory enforcement...
U.S. prosecutors accuse members of Iran-based Mabna Institute of hacking hundreds of universities, companies, and government institutions and stealing more than 31 terabytes of...