The videos that have trickled out of the Islamic Republic offer a rare glimpse into the scope of the crackdown.

The source had only a few moments to write down his account until he lost access to the internet. He had contacted me from northeastern Iran. He told me how officials in Mashhad, the country’s ...

Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has outlined his vision for a democratic Iran on social media. His plan includes ending a ...

Across Iran, entire cities now stand eerily empty — fully built, yet largely uninhabited. From massive development projects ...

Iran’s protests are often framed as economic, political or ideological. Yet a deeper ecological crisis is eroding the fabric ...

Are we, then, witnessing a revival of kingship? Not in the narrow sense of crowns reliably returning to thrones. The evidence ...

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

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Point-blank shootings at protests, hangars filled with corpses and omnipresent security forces: Multiple accounts gathered by ...

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The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s ...