Intensifying factional infighting, daily executions, and the dilemma between war and negotiations expose a deeper crisis of legitimacy that proposals for a “Third Republic” are unlikely to resolve.
Iran’s ruling establishment is facing a deepening existential crisis, marked by intensifying internal power struggles, growing social...
With poverty reportedly reaching 40 percent and some 34 million people facing extreme poverty, Iran’s deepening livelihood crisis exposes the limits of temporary relief and raises fundamental questions about the distribution of national...
Nine months after promising a one-million-toman food voucher following the removal of preferential exchange rates, the regime has yet to deliver the promised increase. Meanwhile, rising food prices, new eligibility restrictions, and plans...
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 dangerous form...
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...
Mai Sato’s report to the UN General Assembly describes thousands killed, at least 29 executions linked to January’s protests, more than 4,000 reported arrests on national-security charges, and worsening economic hardship as the...
From Rasht and Ahvaz to Tehran, Kermanshah, Isfahan, and Shush, retired workers and pensioners denounce soaring prices, inadequate pensions, corruption, and the imprisonment of workers, teachers, and political dissenters.
Years of Work, Yet No Security in Retirement
Iranian retirees are once again taking to the streets to demand their basic rights, denouncing a system in which decades of work have failed to secure even a dignified retirement. On October 18, 2026, pensioners from the Social Security Organization, as well as retired steel and mining workers, staged protests in several cities, linking their economic grievances to broader opposition to repression, executions, and corruption.
From Rasht and Ahvaz to Kermanshah, Tehran, Isfahan, and Shush,...
A 230 percent tuition increase at one medical university, rising dormitory costs, deteriorating food services, and mounting living expenses are making higher education increasingly...
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...
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...
Resistance supporters staged protest photo actions and distributed placards and leaflets in Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, Parand, Rasht, Robat Karim, and Kermanshah, demanding the release of political prisoners and the abolition of death sentences.
Resistance...
Intensifying factional infighting, daily executions, and the dilemma between war and negotiations expose a deeper crisis of legitimacy that proposals for a “Third Republic”...
An open letter challenges the decision to honor the son of Iran’s former shah, citing organized violence by monarchist supporters against Iranian dissidents in...
A brief official statement placed the war, military capabilities, internal cohesion, and continued street mobilization at the center of the leadership’s agenda, offering clues...
At a conference in Germany, political and social representatives challenged Berlin and the EU’s approach to Tehran, arguing that neither negotiations nor foreign military...
