Protests

As Iran’s economic, regional, and domestic standing deteriorates, senior and junior officials alike will begin to realize that the regime cannot ensure their safety. On January 18, 2025, an Iranian...

Protestors in Georgia are objecting to a draft law on media and non-governmental organizations that requires the groups to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they...

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...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is at war with its own people. The death of Mahsa Amini triggered some of the most serious demonstrations against the theocracy since 1979. The...

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...

A series of cities across western Iran went on strike on Wednesday, commemorating a series of killings by the country’s security forces in late September amid the crackdown on the...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has produced multiple crises on the global level. In addition to the humanitarian, food, and energy crises, threat perception both on state and people levels...

The ongoing social unrest in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman murdered by the Islamic Republic’s “morality police,” shows no sign of abetting. Naturally,...

Back when I was in college, a beloved political science professor who studied social movements and revolutions would sometimes step into class and speak to us as though he were...

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....

More than 300 Iranian journalists published an open letter on Sunday calling for the release of their colleagues, who were arrested by the country’s security forces while covering the widespread...

Iranian security forces clashed with demonstrators in Iran’s northwestern Kurdistan province during a memorial service for Mahsa Amini, the twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman whose death in police custody sparked the most...