A sweeping proposed law could criminalize contact with foreign media, restrict civil society and universities, and place broad areas of cultural and social activity under security control.
The Iranian regime is moving toward a new and potentially far-reaching instrument of repression that could give its...
As officials admit that state resources have been exhausted and regime media warn of “hyperinflation,” economic hardship is increasingly threatening to trigger a broader social explosion.
Iran’s economic crisis has entered a phase in...
Long fuel lines and growing public anger coincide with government plans for higher gasoline prices, prompting regime media and officials to warn of potentially broader protests.
Iran’s worsening fuel crisis is generating growing public...
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...
The escalating use of the death penalty against protesters and political prisoners demands urgent, coordinated action from the international community before more lives are lost.
The Iranian regime is accelerating its use of executions...
Prison authorities are reportedly denying political prisoners basic necessities, withholding medication, and imprisoning relatives to force detainees to abandon their political positions.
Iranian prison authorities are intensifying pressure on political prisoners and their families...
Growing warnings from within the regime reveal a deeper fear: that economic hardship and accumulated public anger could turn recurring protests into a sustained process beyond the authorities’ control.
For years, Iran’s rulers have portrayed foreign pressure and alleged external conspiracies as the principal causes of unrest. Whenever people took to the streets to protest poverty, corruption, repression, or economic mismanagement, the regime sought to dismiss their grievances by attributing the protests to foreign interference.
But repeated nationwide uprisings have increasingly exposed the weakness of that narrative.
Today, even media outlets associated with the regime are acknowledging that its most serious security challenge lies not beyond Iran’s borders, but within Iranian society...
New disciplinary rulings against three Sharif University students have brought the number of students facing expulsion to 10, raising renewed concerns over academic freedom...
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...
Resistance Units in Zahedan display banners rejecting both religious and monarchical dictatorship, reaffirming calls for freedom, independence, and a democratic republic in Iran.
Zahedan Youth Renew Call to Reject Dictatorship
Young people and Resistance Units...
New disciplinary rulings against three Sharif University students have brought the number of students facing expulsion to 10, raising renewed concerns over academic freedom...
Reza Pahlavi presents himself as a unifying democratic figure for Iran’s future, but his own political positions raise fundamental questions about pluralism, accountability, and...
As officials admit that state resources have been exhausted and regime media warn of “hyperinflation,” economic hardship is increasingly threatening to trigger a broader...
Growing warnings from within the regime reveal a deeper fear: that economic hardship and accumulated public anger could turn recurring protests into a sustained...
