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...
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...
With poverty reportedly reaching 40 percent and some 34 million people facing extreme poverty, Iran’s deepening livelihood crisis exposes the limits of temporary relief and raises fundamental questions about the distribution of national...
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...
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...
Mai Sato’s report to the UN General Assembly describes thousands killed, at least 29 executions linked to January’s protests, more than 4,000 reported arrests on national-security charges, and worsening economic hardship as the...
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...
From political messaging to acts of resistance, the Resistance Units seek to connect the daily hardships of Iranian society with a fundamental political solution, relying on organization, strategic direction, and persistence under repression.
Iran’s...
Addressing a conference at Cuneo City Hall in Italy, Mahmoud Hakamian condemns the execution of political prisoners and calls for a democratic republic based...
Lanzo Ruggiero, vice president of Italy’s National Association of Partisans, says the Iranian people deserve a democratic republic based on popular sovereignty, pluralism, secular...
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...
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...
From political messaging to acts of resistance, the Resistance Units seek to connect the daily hardships of Iranian society with a fundamental political solution,...
