Mojtaba Khamenei’s claims of global supremacy, millions of “self-sacrificing” supporters, and nationwide military readiness reveal the widening gap between regime propaganda and the realities confronting Iranian society.
One of the clearest signs of decay in an authoritarian system is the widening gap between the rulers’...
The accelerating collapse of the rial is driving up the cost of imported goods, production, transportation, and basic services, while weakening the purchasing power and savings of millions of Iranians.
The Iranian rial has...
Washington warns that Iran may soon exhaust its remaining oil shipments to China, threatening a critical source of foreign currency and intensifying pressure on the regime’s already strained economy.
Iran’s regime is facing a...
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...
Former political prisoner Behzad Naziri linked the regime’s accelerating executions to its fear of renewed unrest, while women’s rights advocate Azadeh Alami described Iranian women’s resistance as a fundamental challenge to the theocratic...
Political figures, legal experts, and human-rights advocates at the UN European headquarters warn of escalating executions, restrictions on civil society, and renewed repression of political prisoners in Iran.
A conference at the European headquarters...
From retirees and workers to drivers, farmers, homebuyers, and university students, protests across Iran are increasingly linking economic grievances to opposition to the regime’s broader policies.
Iran’s economic crisis is increasingly spilling into the streets, with workers, retirees, drivers, farmers, students, homebuyers, and other social groups staging protests across the country over unpaid or inadequate wages, soaring living costs, insecure employment, and what they describe as institutionalized corruption and exploitation.
The latest wave of protests shows how demands that initially center on wages, pensions, insurance, housing, or delayed deliveries are increasingly intersecting with broader anger over the policies and institutions of Iran’s regime.
In Tehran, Ahvaz, Shush, Rasht, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Khorramabad,...
A reported rise in support for fundamental political change reflects a profound shift in how large sections of Iranian society view the country’s political...
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...
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...
At a conference in Italy’s Senate, Giulio Terzi linked the Iran regime’s regional destabilization and repression to the need for a fundamental policy shift and stronger support for democratic opposition forces.
A senior Italian...
A reported rise in support for fundamental political change reflects a profound shift in how large sections of Iranian society view the country’s political...
From retirees and workers to drivers, farmers, homebuyers, and university students, protests across Iran are increasingly linking economic grievances to opposition to the regime’s...
Former political prisoner Behzad Naziri linked the regime’s accelerating executions to its fear of renewed unrest, while women’s rights advocate Azadeh Alami described Iranian...
PMOI Resistance Units in Zahedan display messages rejecting both clerical and monarchical dictatorship while calling for the overthrow of Iran’s religious dictatorship and a...
Resistance Units report a new wave of activities in cities across Iran, supporting political prisoners facing execution and marking the anniversary of the 2022...
