14시간 전 · Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow.

1시간 전 · Weeks of nationwide protests have posed one of the gravest threats to Iran’s clerical rulers since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The authorities have responded by imposing a near …

23시간 전 · The protest movement also needs to secure defections from the regime’s security forces. Without this, it is unlikely to be able to replace the Islamic Republic with a democracy.

4일 전 · The Islamic Republic is dying. It may suppress this round of protests. The leadership may survive this year. But it will not emerge from 2026 with its authority, cohesion, or capacity …

3일 전 · Opinion: Lacking an organized protest movement and signs of elite fracture, Iran’s regime may survive for now, but growing unrest fuels scenarios ranging from short-term repression to …

3일 전 · As furious protests enter their third week and bring Iran to the precipice of change, the country’s theocratic government is trying to survive by harshly cracking down on the widening ...

1일 전 · They’re less likely to be confined to an educated, urban middle class and more likely, as the current protests have, to spread across the country. That may be why protests motivated by …