Hassan Rouhani’s defense of diplomacy and the nuclear deal has triggered a sharp backlash, exposing deep divisions inside Iran’s regime over the costs of war and negotiations.
The internal conflict within Iran’s regime over war, negotiations, and the nuclear deal has entered an unusually bitter...
With minimum monthly wages below 25 million tomans and inflation devastating household budgets, millions of Iranian workers are falling further below the poverty line.
The gap between income and the cost of living in...
As the rial plunges and living costs soar, workers, pensioners, teachers, and unemployed youth are taking to the streets across Iran over wages, jobs, and basic survival.
Iran’s economic crisis is generating a...
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...
International experts warn that impunity for the 1988 massacre has enabled the Iranian regime to reproduce the same pattern of repression, executions, and enforced disappearances today
The unresolved legacy of Iran’s 1988 massacre is...
At least 82 people were executed and 152 were arrested in Iran during August, according to documented reports, while women, political prisoners, Kurds, Baluch citizens, and January uprising detainees remained particularly vulnerable.
Iran’s...
From Tehran and Yasuj to Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Ilam, and Arak, teachers, retirees, workers, nurses, and delivery drivers are taking their grievances to the streets
The third week of Shahrivar has brought another broad wave of protests across Iran, with teachers, retirees, workers, nurses, railway employees, and motorcycle delivery drivers taking to the streets over unpaid wages, inadequate pensions, inflation, deteriorating living standards, and official corruption.
The protests, reported from Tehran, Yasuj, Ahvaz, Shush, Dezful, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Kurdistan, Ilam, Arak, and other cities, reveal how economic grievances are increasingly converging with demands for accountability, freedom, and an end to repression.
Teachers refuse to remain silent
On Sunday, September 6, teachers gathered in Tehran...
From meat and housing to childbirth and basic services, soaring prices are forcing Iranian families to abandon ordinary standards of living as wages fall...
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...
Young activists in Zahedan display banners and placards calling for freedom, equality, a democratic republic, and an end to both monarchical and clerical dictatorship
Young members of the PMOI Resistance Units carried out a...
With minimum monthly wages below 25 million tomans and inflation devastating household budgets, millions of Iranian workers are falling further below the poverty line.
The...
Speakers at a September 12 demonstration in Paris denounced executions and repression in Iran, highlighted the courage of resistance activists and women, and called...
From meat and housing to childbirth and basic services, soaring prices are forcing Iranian families to abandon ordinary standards of living as wages fall...
Soaring medicine prices, shortages, and failures in insurance coverage are forcing Iranian families to delay treatment or abandon it altogether.
For millions of Iranians, getting...
