Iran Politics & Protests Watch

The human cost of Iran's protest crackdown spans personal detentions to minority targeting.

• Najmeh Amini, a 22-year-old student, has spent over six...

Iran saw major leadership change with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stepping down by late February and Mojtaba Khamenei taking over. Ongoing protests...

Iranian military sources have dismissed President Trump's claim that Tehran requested a pause in attacks as a new lie aimed at pressuring Gulf states, while signaling full military readiness and keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.

Iran's regime is intensifying repression across multiple fronts simultaneously.

• Ethnic minorities: UN experts report surging arbitrary arrests,...

Regime fractures are widening through public power plays and street violence.

• Khamenei in-law Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi recruits for a...

Iran is already inside the 'tipping zone' as food inflation hits 112.5-113.8% and reports emerge of Iranians stealing bread, cheese, and meat from...

Iran's parliament fades further from power as annual inflation hits a record 62% and food prices surge to 134% nationwide, driving the misery index to...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk reports at least 56 executions on national security charges since March, including 27 tied to January protests, with...

Iran's economy faces twin shocks from regime failures and war damage.

• Mismanagement drives poverty toward 45.5% by 2028 as food costs jump 128% and...

• Midnight raids by IRGC intelligence have intensified, with thousands arrested since January on charges like moharebeh and espionage, often...

January 2026 protests triggered a deadly crackdown killing at least 7,000, possibly 20,000, amid nationwide unrest.

• Targeted Sentencing:...

Iran hanged Omid Behzad and Pouria Safvat on Monday for alleged Mossad ties, including sharing security coordinates and protest-related info.

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The Iranian regime's escalating executions and crackdowns expose its terror of domestic dissent, including the January uprising and resistance units...

Iran's clerical regime survives through manufactured mirages that divide opposition, paired with relentless crackdowns.

• Reform mirage: Decades of...

• Isfahan bazaars sit eerily quiet as residents face economic devastation and uncertainty
• Daily checkpoints and surveillance leave citizens...

Iran's protest leaders warn a revolution could erupt 'any day now' as public anger boils over executions, economic collapse, and war. Activists are...

Iranian authorities have intensified a coordinated crackdown on social media and commercial spaces, blocking at least 72 high-profile pages, forcing...

• Arvin Kheirkhah, 19, was executed August 1 at Shahrud prison for 'waging war against God'.
• Amirhossein Safari and Abolfazl Sepahi were publicly...

A letter makes a direct case that hijab must be voluntary rather than enforced by law, invoking Mahsa Amini's death in morality police custody to highlight the stakes.

Amid Iran's leadership vacuum, the Paydari movement—Persian for 'stability'—emerges as hard-core ideologues determined to enforce the Islamic Republic's control over society.