Mostafa Aslani

Iran’s Power Crisis: Blackouts, Damaged Appliances, and Mounting Economic Losses

Repeated outages and voltage fluctuations are no longer merely a summer inconvenience. They are damaging household appliances, disrupting businesses and factories, reducing production, and...

When Hereditary Rule Is Presented as Democracy

Examining the arguments being used to promote constitutional monarchy as a democratic solution for Iran The question of Iran's political future has become increasingly prominent...

Iran’s Forgotten Regions: Poverty at Home While Regime Funds Flow Abroad

From villages without proper bathing facilities to families forced to cross rivers to reach medical care, conditions in some of Iran’s poorest regions expose...

Warning Against the Normalization of Executions in Iran

As executions continue across Iran, growing concerns are emerging over the regime’s attempt to normalize the death penalty and desensitize society to state violence. The...

From Evin and Gohardasht to Qezel Hesar: Prisoners Recall Torture and Resistance in Iran’s Prisons

Former political prisoners recount the torture, executions, and extraordinary resistance they witnessed in Iran’s prisons during the 1980s. The testimonies of former political prisoners offer...

Why Is Iran’s Regime Increasingly Alarmed by the Younger Generation?

As Iran’s internal crises deepen, regime officials increasingly warn about the growing attraction of young people to the PMOI and Resistance Units. As Iran’s international...

Missiles, Repression, and Military Posturing: Signs of Strength or a Dictatorship Fighting for Survival?

Iran’s regime continues to display its military capabilities and unleash repression, but its reliance on war, violence, and intimidation reveals a deeper crisis of...

Why Iran’s Regime Is Afraid to Give Up the Streets

Months after the 40-day war, the regime continues staging nightly rallies, revealing a deeper fear: the return of nationwide protests. For months after the end...

Iran Has Moved Beyond Reformism: The Myth of Change Within the Regime

After decades of repression and repeated uprisings, Iranian society is no longer choosing between reformists and hardliners. The central question has become fundamental political...

The Mirage of a Return to Monarchy: What Iran’s 2026 Crisis Has Revealed

Two wars and a nationwide uprising have underscored a fundamental reality: Iran’s future cannot be built by restoring a hereditary monarchy or by recycling...

The Price of Freedom: Stories History Must Never Forget

From the prisons of the Shah’s secret police to the executions and persecution that followed, Iranian families have paid a devastating price for their...

Iran’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Exposes a Deepening Divide Between Society and the Regime

As living costs reportedly reach 90 million tomans a month while minimum-wage workers earn only about 25 million, economic hardship is becoming a broader...

Iran’s Regime Fears the Return of Nationwide Uprisings

Growing warnings from within the regime reveal a deeper fear: that economic hardship and accumulated public anger could turn recurring protests into a sustained...

The Pahlavi Legacy: A Monarchy That Looked Abroad for Its Survival

A 1953 U.S. diplomatic document and recent appeals by Reza Pahlavi expose a recurring pattern: seeking foreign backing rather than deriving political legitimacy...

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