War and Repression: The Iranian Regime’s Twin Tools for Preventing Another Uprising

As regime officials repeatedly warn of “riots” and “disorder,” growing threats against Iranian youth reveal the leadership’s deep fear of another nationwide uprising—and an internal dispute over whether war or negotiations offer the best path to regime survival. The Iranian regime has once again intensified...

Iran’s Gasoline Crisis: Poor Fuel Quality Puts Millions at Risk

Iran’s gasoline crisis is not only about shortages and rising prices. Poor fuel quality, elevated pollutants, and toxic emissions pose a wider public-health and environmental threat. Iran’s gasoline crisis is increasingly being defined not...

Before the War, Iran’s Economy Was Already in Crisis

As Iran faces war, negotiations, and deepening economic turmoil, regime officials increasingly blame external pressures for crises rooted in years of corruption, mismanagement, and systematic plunder. As Iran moves through a turbulent period of...

Iran’s Water and Power Crisis Deepens as Basic Services Become a Privilege

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...

Iran’s Human Rights Crisis Deepens as Regime Escalates Executions and Suppresses Free Expression

International warnings over executions of political prisoners and new restrictions on contact with foreign journalists expose the Iranian regime’s intensifying campaign of repression. Iran’s human rights situation has sharply deteriorated in recent months, with...

Survivors Remember Iran’s 1988 Massacre: Testimonies From Inside the Prisons

Former political prisoners recount executions, torture, death sentences, and the systematic destruction of an entire generation of political prisoners in Iran’s prisons. The 1988 massacre of political prisoners remains one of the darkest chapters...

Executions and Repression Cannot Silence Iran’s Growing Resistance

As executions intensify, resistance activities inside and outside Iran are expanding while economic hardship and political divisions deepen the regime’s crisis. As Iran’s economic and political crises deepen, the regime is increasingly relying on executions and repression to intimidate a society already burdened by inflation, poverty, and political frustration. The frequent announcement of executions, particularly involving young people accused of taking part in protests or resistance activities, has become one of the regime’s principal instruments for creating fear. But the executions have not produced the silence the authorities seek. Instead, resistance activities inside Iran continue to challenge the regime, while supporters of the Iranian Resistance abroad have expanded their campaigns against executions...

Undocumented Baloch Workers: Iran’s Most Vulnerable Laborers Trapped Between Poverty and Repression

Denied basic citizenship rights, exploited in the harshest jobs, and threatened with arrest and deportation, undocumented Baloch workers face a daily struggle for survival...

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When Hereditary Rule Is Presented as Democracy

Examining the arguments being used to promote constitutional monarchy as a democratic solution for...

The Mirage of a Return to Monarchy: What Iran’s 2026 Crisis Has Revealed

Two wars and a nationwide uprising have underscored a fundamental reality: Iran’s future cannot...

Iran’s Water and Power Crisis Deepens as Basic Services Become a Privilege

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...

Iran’s Internet Blackout Economy: Billions in Filter-Breaking Fees Fuel Repression and Profiteering

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...

From the Constitutional Revolution to Today: Iran’s Unfinished Struggle Against Dictatorship

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...

From Qezel-Hesar Prison, a Political Prisoner Hails Resistance and the Continued Struggle for a Free Iran

In a message from Qezel-Hesar Prison, political prisoner Seyed Mehdi Vafaei reflects on more than six decades of organized resistance, the emergence of new generations of prisoners resisting the regime, and the leading...

Women Under Siege: New Data Reveal the Escalating Assault on Women’s Rights in Iran

Executions, mass arrests, femicide, and the continued targeting of female students expose an intensifying campaign against women in Iran...

Iran Regime Defies Nuclear Oversight While Rebuilding Sensitive Facility

As Tehran blocks IAEA inspections and quietly restores a...

Calls for an Iranian Nuclear Bomb Expose the Regime’s Growing Threat to International Peace

A state-linked media outlet openly advocates nuclear weapons as...

Geneva Talks Resume as Tehran Seeks Sanctions Relief Amid Deepening Crisis

Indirect U.S.–Iran Negotiations Highlight Strategic Deadlock Over Enrichment and...

PMOI Resistance Units Report 150 Actions Across Iran on 61st Anniversary

Resistance Units marked the 61st anniversary of the PMOI’s founding with 150 reported activities across dozens of Iranian cities, highlighting resistance, rejection of both...

PMOI Resistance Units Mark 61st Anniversary With Coordinated Actions Across Iran

Resistance Units carried out a car and motorcycle parade in Karaj and dozens of graffiti actions across major cities, marking the beginning of the...

War and Repression: The Iranian Regime’s Twin Tools for Preventing Another Uprising

As regime officials repeatedly warn of “riots” and “disorder,” growing threats against Iranian youth reveal the leadership’s deep fear of another nationwide uprising—and an...

From Qezel-Hesar Prison, a Political Prisoner Hails Resistance and the Continued Struggle for a Free Iran

In a message from Qezel-Hesar Prison, political prisoner Seyed Mehdi Vafaei reflects on more than six decades of organized resistance, the emergence of new...

Pezeshkian–State TV Clash Exposes Deepening Divisions Inside Iran’s Regime

A public dispute between Masoud Pezeshkian and the state broadcaster’s chief reveals growing tensions inside the regime, coming despite renewed calls from Mojtaba Khamenei...
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