Iran’s Regime Trapped Between War and Negotiations as Mojtaba Khamenei Sends Contradictory Signals

From calls to maximize military leverage in the Strait of Hormuz and expand missile and drone capabilities to promises of ending the “neither war nor peace” situation, conflicting messages expose the absence of a coherent strategy at the top of Iran’s regime. Iran's regime is...

Iran’s Car Market: How State-Backed Monopolies Make Iranians Pay Twice the Price

From subsidized production in Azerbaijan to exorbitant prices at home, Iran’s automotive industry exposes a system of state privilege, currency manipulation, and profiteering linked to the IRGC and regime-affiliated networks. A car that sells...

Iran’s Soaring Food Prices Expose the Gap Between Official Inflation Figures and Daily Reality

Bread prices surge by as much as 250 percent, while farmers receive low prices for their produce and consumers face mounting costs across essential goods Iran’s escalating cost-of-living crisis is widening the gap between...

Iran Regime Revives Internet Control Plan as Power Struggle Deepens

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 regime has...

UN Rapporteur Exposes Iran Regime’s Escalating Repression, Executions, and Internet Blackouts

Presenting her report to the UN General Assembly, Mai Sato detailed the execution of protesters, mass arrests, enforced disappearances, and systematic efforts to silence victims and conceal human rights violations. Iran’s regime continues to...

Iran’s “No to Execution” Campaign Spreads From Qezel Hesar Prison to 66 Prisons and International Parliaments

What began as a weekly hunger strike by political prisoners has grown into a nationwide and international campaign challenging the regime’s execution apparatus, with support from families, resistance activists, political figures, and human...

November 2019 Uprising: Why Iran’s Regime Cannot Turn Back the Clock

Seven years of mounting economic hardship, deepening political fractures, and the evolution of organized resistance have kept the causes of Iran’s November 2019 uprising alive, making it a defining turning point in the struggle against religious dictatorship. The November 2019 uprising was not an isolated explosion of public anger that can be confined to the pages of history. To treat it as a concluded episode is to misunderstand the dynamics of Iranian society and the conflict between a population demanding fundamental change and a regime determined to preserve its rule. November 2019 marked a decisive escalation in that confrontation. Its significance lies not only in the scale of the protests...

Iran’s Education Crisis: Pezeshkian Asks Families to Build Schools as the State Evades Responsibility

With schools facing shortages of teachers, facilities, and basic resources, Iran’s president invokes wartime conditions to justify shifting the burden onto citizens, without presenting...

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Struan Stevenson: Iranians Will Not “Replace the Turban with the Crown” as Next Uprising Looms

With Iran’s clerical regime reeling from military conflict, economic collapse, and the aftermath of...

Reza Pahlavi’s Latest Telegram Bot: Trust Us With Your Identity, Security Comes Later

After promises of a secure national cooperation network and claims of tens of thousands...

Iran Regime Revives Internet Control Plan as Power Struggle Deepens

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...

Iran’s Land Subsidence Crisis Expands Tenfold in Eight Years

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...

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 Resistance Units Mark Cyrus Day With 60 Activities Rejecting Both Shah and Mullahs

Coordinated activities across 17 Iranian cities highlight the demand for an end to religious and monarchical dictatorship, invoking Cyrus the Great, Mohammad Mossadegh, and a democratic republic based on Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan. Resistance...

Four Years After Mahsa Amini’s Death, Iran’s Regime Revives the Hijab Crackdown

As the fourth anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches, morality patrols and arrests are reportedly returning to Iranian streets,...

Iran’s Nuclear Defiance, Regional Interference, and Executions Draw Wider International Criticism

UN General Assembly First Committee debates highlight growing concerns...

The UN Security Council and the Iranian Regime’s New Nuclear Nightmare

After two decades of nuclear brinkmanship, Tehran faces renewed...

Iran Regime Defies Nuclear Oversight While Rebuilding Sensitive Facility

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

Iran’s Resistance Units Mark Cyrus the Great Day With 50 Anti-Dictatorship Actions Across 11 Cities

From Pasargadae and Persepolis to Tehran, Shiraz, and other cities, Resistance Units highlight Iran’s historical struggle for freedom, rejecting both monarchical and clerical dictatorship...

Iran’s Regime Trapped Between War and Negotiations as Mojtaba Khamenei Sends Contradictory Signals

From calls to maximize military leverage in the Strait of Hormuz and expand missile and drone capabilities to promises of ending the “neither war...

Iran’s Car Market: How State-Backed Monopolies Make Iranians Pay Twice the Price

From subsidized production in Azerbaijan to exorbitant prices at home, Iran’s automotive industry exposes a system of state privilege, currency manipulation, and profiteering linked...

Struan Stevenson: Iranians Will Not “Replace the Turban with the Crown” as Next Uprising Looms

With Iran’s clerical regime reeling from military conflict, economic collapse, and the aftermath of the February death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, former senior...

Torricelli: Iran’s Regime Is Weakening—and a Viable Democratic Alternative Is Ready

As debates intensify over the scope and duration of U.S. military and economic pressure against Tehran, former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) is urging...
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