The regime may have been able to crush the latest wave of protests using its tried-and-tested playbook of repression. But the ...

Iran is complex. But a Rutgers professor says there is a clear solution to the U.S. avoiding war and promoting democracy.

Jeiran cited Abdanan, a small town in western Iran, as one emblematic example. “The authorities assumed the protests were about poverty and distributed rice to the residents,” she said. “The people ...

Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters ...

Iran also faces much greater threats from outside. The “ axis of resistance ,” a network of allies and proxy militias that ...

Iran’s security forces have carried out mass killings of protesters after nationwide protests escalated on January 8, 2026.

"There is only the slow, uncertain task of granting Iranians leverage over their own future and the moral imperative not to ...

Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.

Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's ...

The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country ...

Some young Iranians in the U.S., frustrated by the news blackout, said they wished they could join protesters in the streets ...

Nationwide protests in Iran are putting new pressure on its theocracy as the country faces an economic crisis.