Despite attempts to project regional power through threats, interference, and intimidation, the regime faces growing restrictions on oil exports, mounting obstacles to sanctions evasion, and increasing international attention to its human rights record.
Iran’s ruling regime is facing mounting international pressure across several fronts, from...
Despite legal guarantees requiring timely payment and compensation for delays, the regime kept a substantial share of wheat farmers’ earnings for months, disrupting their livelihoods and the next planting season. Discrepancies in official...
Despite promises to adjust wages for inflation and protect livelihoods, the Pezeshkian government is preparing another budget that prioritizes military spending, regional intervention, and religious institutions while workers struggle to afford basic necessities.
Inflation...
Seventy-two years after the execution of Mohammad Mossadegh's foreign minister, the circumstances of his arrest, stabbing, secret military trial, and execution expose the violence used to consolidate Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule. As Reza Pahlavi...
The executions of Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi bring the death toll in the so-called Ali Khani Square case to nine. Meanwhile, the 145th consecutive week of coordinated protests in 66 prisons underscores...
Iran’s regime executed three prisoners arrested during the January uprising and a 27-year-old political prisoner in separate cases, while at least seven other inmates were hanged on November 4. The executions have intensified...
Pensioners accounted for nearly 63 percent of recorded protests, while workers, students, merchants, farmers, drivers, and other groups also took to the streets over unpaid wages, economic hardship, and deteriorating public services.
At least 48 protest actions involving different sectors of Iranian society were recorded across Iran in October 2026, according to a monthly assessment published by the Iran Freedom Association. The figures highlight the persistence of economic and social grievances under Iran’s regime, with pensioners accounting for the largest share of demonstrations.
The protests were driven by a range of unresolved problems, including deteriorating living conditions, unpaid wages and benefits, inadequate healthcare, job insecurity, restricted access to public services, and...
Rising costs, poor connectivity, and censorship are undermining students’ access to global research and deepening the crisis in Iran’s higher education system.
The Iranian regime’s...
Seventy-two years after the execution of Mohammad Mossadegh's foreign minister, the circumstances of his arrest, stabbing, secret military trial, and execution expose the violence used to consolidate Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's rule. As...
From foreign-currency allocation and raw-material imports to pharmaceutical production and distribution, a system dominated by regime-linked networks is driving up medicine costs, disrupting supplies, and forcing patients to choose between treatment and basic...
The proposed “Virtual Space Regulation” law would expand security control over online activity, enforce identity verification, and preserve a lucrative censorship-driven market as millions of Iranians depend on internet access for their livelihoods.
Iran’s...
In an opinion piece published by La Tribune Dimanche, European law specialist Jean-Pierre Spitzer examines how political considerations influenced the designation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as a terrorist organization,...
How the Iranian regime uses monarchist networks, cyber operations, and the Lion and Sun Associations to divide the opposition and undermine protests for a...
Pensioners accounted for nearly 63 percent of recorded protests, while workers, students, merchants, farmers, drivers, and other groups also took to the streets over...
The World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Gender Gap Report places Iran 144th out of 145 countries, exposing the scale of discrimination against women in...
Despite attempts to project regional power through threats, interference, and intimidation, the regime faces growing restrictions on oil exports, mounting obstacles to sanctions evasion,...
Despite legal guarantees requiring timely payment and compensation for delays, the regime kept a substantial share of wheat farmers’ earnings for months, disrupting their...
