Iranian opposition website Iran International claims at least 12,000 people have been killed by the regime in protests in recent days, in “the largest killing in Iran’s modern history.” That number is far above the most commonly reported estimates so far, which currently put the toll at several hundred.

From the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 to the protests of 2026, Iran’s political history has been defined by cycles of hope, repression and revolt. As unrest spreads once more, the country confronts a question it has never fully resolved: what comes after authority loses legitimacy?

The U.S. aerial strike against Iran was conducted under such unique circumstances that it offers as many questions as lessons. The Israeli air campaign, conducted exclusively with fighter jets, had so crippled Iran’s air defenses that American B-2 ...

After spending the last year killing pretty much everybody else in the Middle East, Israel and its less-than-silent partners back in Washington finally zeroed in on their ‘big bad’ in Tehran this June. All of this is hardly surprising nor is the fact ...

This summer, the Islam-Qala border crossing between Iran’s Razavi Khorasan province and Afghanistan’s Herat province has presented a bleak scene as the Iranian regime has violently expelled Afghans across the border. In the region’s punishing July ...