Iranian official rhetoric girds for war as US fleet nears
After the loss of longtime Russian allies Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, the Kremlin…
Iran Interior Ministry official defects, urges Trump to intervene
Monday night’s call-in program unfolded through broken connections, Starlink links, and brief windows of limited access. From Tehran,…
Iran crackdown left 16,500 dead, 330,000 injured – Sunday Times
Among Iranians inside the country and across the diaspora, the pause is increasingly interpreted not as restraint but…
Trump calls Khamenei a ‘sick man’, says it’s time for new leadership in Iran
Soheil Zilabi, a resident of Yazdanshahr, was killed on Friday, January 9, 2026, after security forces opened fire…
Corpse of slain Iranian mother of two found in grim ‘warehouse of bodies’
The scale of the violence—put at 12,000 by Iran International and as high as 20,000 by CBS—has shocked…
Defiance met with massacre: Iran’s biggest protest wave in generations
Iran International has received a large volume of videos, audio testimonies and written accounts describing how the bodies…
‘De facto curfew’: residents describe tightened security in Iran
Revolutions differ from episodic unrest not by the scale of any single demonstration, but by their structure and…
How Trump’s secondary tariffs could hurt Tehran
What began in late December 2025 as protests over economic hardship—initially centered on Tehran’s bazaar and spreading through…
Restraint as strategy: Israel watches Iran’s unrest from afar
Revolutions differ from episodic unrest not by the scale of any single demonstration, but by their structure and…
Why Moscow may be central to Tehran’s struggle for survival
The aim is not necessarily to convince skeptics, but to project an image of control and popular backing…
Nothing to see here: influencers echo Tehran line on protests
The killings in Kuhdasht, Azna and Lordegan came before the government shut down internet access, cutting off communication…
Young Iranian lives cut short as world welcomed new year
The killings in Kuhdasht, Azna and Lordegan came before the government shut down internet access, cutting off communication…