A revealing interview exposes fears inside the regime that the leadership vacuum is allowing political forces to gradually strip the Supreme Leader of his powers—and ultimately undermine the system itself.
The most revealing threats to the Iranian regime are not always articulated by its opponents....
Falling labor-force participation, disappearing industrial jobs, soaring informal employment, and record economic misery reveal a labor crisis far deeper than official unemployment figures suggest.
The Unemployment Number Is Hiding a Much Bigger Crisis
Iran’s labor...
With food prices rising far faster than wages, poverty is spreading beyond the unemployed and most vulnerable, threatening workers, retirees, and Iran’s shrinking middle class.
Iran’s economic crisis is rapidly turning into a broader...
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 sovereignty, and...
As poverty, inflation, and economic deprivation deepen, Iran’s regime is intensifying executions to suppress dissent and prevent another nationwide uprising.
Poverty and soaring prices are devastating Iranian households. Economic misery is reaching unprecedented levels,...
New arrests, violent prison raids, torture allegations, sham trials, and inhumane detention conditions reveal the Iranian regime’s continuing campaign to silence political dissent and intimidate supporters of the PMOI/MEK.
The Iranian regime is intensifying...
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,...
Iran’s healthcare crisis is deepening as medicine shortages, soaring treatment costs, and weak insurance coverage put growing pressure on patients. A senior Iranian lawmaker...
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...
As wildfires spread across multiple provinces, experts say decades of mismanagement, land grabbing, underfunded conservation, and climate pressures have turned Iran's forests into recurring victims of a preventable crisis.
Wildfires Spread Across Iran as...
Twenty-six consecutive years of drought, relentless groundwater depletion, and delayed reforms have pushed South Khorasan beyond a water crisis and into what officials now describe as "water bankruptcy."
South Khorasan is no longer confronting...
Resistance Units carried out 50 coordinated activities in cities across Iran, displaying banners, distributing leaflets, writing slogans, and staging photo actions in support of Simay-e Azadi and the struggle for a democratic republic.
Resistance...
Falling labor-force participation, disappearing industrial jobs, soaring informal employment, and record economic misery reveal a labor crisis far deeper than official unemployment figures suggest.
The...
As poverty, inflation, and economic deprivation deepen, Iran’s regime is intensifying executions to suppress dissent and prevent another nationwide uprising.
Poverty and soaring prices are...
With food prices rising far faster than wages, poverty is spreading beyond the unemployed and most vulnerable, threatening workers, retirees, and Iran’s shrinking middle...
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,...
