Mahsa Amini
Have Iran’s Protesters Won Against the Regime?
As the women-led protests sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s infamous morality police begin to quiet down, it is not clear what the protests can actually achieve...
‘Adopt’ an Iranian Political Prisoner to Save a Life
Three months into the latest round of protests in Iran, at least 100 protesters are at risk of execution. The Islamic Republic of Iran has already executed four protesters and arrested...
How the U.S. Can Put an End to Iran’s Brutal Crackdown
Last week, the Islamic Republic executed Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, two twenty-three-year-old Iranians, for their role in the ongoing revolutionary movement in Iran. Though Shekari and Rahnavard are the first Iranians...
Iran Sentences First Mahsa Amini Protester to Death
An Iranian court sentenced a protester arrested during the country’s ongoing nationwide protest movement to death on Sunday—marking the first death sentence the country’s judicial system has handed down in...
Will Change Finally Come to Iran?
The people of Iran have been courageously protesting against the clerical regime for the past fifty-three days. The persistence of the uprising has given people a real sense of empowerment and...
Crackdown: Iran Votes to Start Executing Convicted Protesters
Iran’s parliament voted on Tuesday to approve the use of the death penalty against demonstrators arrested during the country’s ongoing protest movement—sparked in September with the death of twenty-two-year-old Mahsa...
Protests Escalate in Iranian Kurdistan After New Death
A new round of anti-government demonstrations erupted in the Iranian city of Marivan, a border city within the country’s northwestern Kurdistan province, after the death of thirty-five-year-old Marivan native Nasrin...
Amid Internal Strife, Iran Turns Attention to the Caucasus
Iran’s recent military exercise on the Aras River and its diplomatic mission to Armenia relate to issues beyond the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian’s three-day visit to Armenia and the...
United States Vows to Kick Iran off UN Women’s Commission
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the United States would attempt to remove Iran from its seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)—a...
Iranian Government Vows to Investigate Police Brutality
The Iranian government has reportedly launched an investigation after video footage circulated on social media depicting a group of Iranian policemen beating and then shooting a demonstrator involved in the...
The Iranian Diaspora’s Extremism Portends a Bleak Future
Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the magnitude of the events of the past month in Iran can be appreciated. Regardless of the outcome, the country was rattled by a...
Iran to Hold Public Trials for 1,000 Protesters
The Iranian government will hold public trials for at least 1,000 demonstrators arrested during the ongoing anti-government protest movement over the next week, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency....