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How Decades of Failed Governance Poisoned Iran’s Air

The human and economic costs of Iran’s poor air quality are an indictment of the Islamic Republic’s corrupt governance.

10 Iranian Jails the Regime Uses To Brutalize Political Prisoners

Iran routinely detains and imprisons citizens who publicly question the regime. The suffering of these political prisoners is immense: Inmates have reported pervasive sexual assault, beatings, sleep deprivation,...

Israel targets IRGC officials, nuclear scientist, and missile bases in Iran (June 22–21 updates)

Over the past 72 hours, Israel has intensified its air campaign across Iran, striking missile and drone infrastructure in Esfahan, Bushehr, Ahvaz, Yazd, and Qom. Targets included the Imam Hossein missile...

Israel reportedly eliminates nuclear scientist, expands messaging campaign (June 20 updates)

Israel expanded its campaign against Iran with strikes on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sites, missile infrastructure, and nuclear-linked facilities, reportedly killing a nuclear scientist in...

Israel strikes Tehran police HQ, hacks live broadcast (June 18 updates)

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Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort

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Iran Conducts First Public Execution of 2024 as Hunger Strikes Continue

Iran conducted its first public execution of the year on August 26, hanging Amirreza Ajam Akrami, a man in his early 20s, for killing a lawyer. His death comes as weekly hunger strikes...

Iran’s Repression of Baha’is Condemned by U.S. Agency

A key U.S. agency condemned Iran on November 15 for its resurgent persecution of the Baha’is, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. The U.S. Commission on International...

Israel Strikes Iranian Military Facility

Israeli drones struck an advanced weapons-production facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan on Sunday morning, dealing a potential blow to Tehran’s military infrastructure. According to The Jerusalem Post, Western intelligence and foreign sources described the strike as a success, disputing Iranian claims that the blasts caused only minor damage to the roof. The attack may impede Iran’s ability to arm Russia, which has used Iranian loitering munitions — popularly called suicide or kamikaze drones — to strike civilian targets in Ukraine.

UN Votes to Remove Iran From Women’s Rights Commission

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) decided today by a vote of 29-8, with 16 abstentions, to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The decision reflects women’s second-class status across the Islamic Republic. The rights of women have taken center stage in the protests now consuming Iran: The regime’s killing of 23-year-old Mahsa Amini, whom security forces had arrested for allegedly violating Tehran’s hijab laws, triggered the demonstrations now nearing their fourth month with no end in sight.

Iran’s Centrifuge Manufacturing Goes Underground

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported last week that Iran is concentrating its centrifuge production equipment at two centrifuge manufacturing facilities — both likely located beneath...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January

It’s Decision Time on Iran

The Islamic Republic is advancing both the enrichment and weaponization tracks needed to build a bomb.

Biden Looks Away While Iranian Protesters Call for the Regime’s Overthrow

In Iran, nationwide protests are calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. The unrest started in the water-deprived province of Khuzistan but has spread to neighboring provinces and major cities,...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late June

In Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s clerics have groomed and promoted their ruthless enforcer

This month, Iran held the most boring — and most consequential — presidential election in its history. Boring because the election was rigged virtually from the start. What made it consequential is...

Iran Is More Than Persia

Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic

Iranian Laborers Need Our Help

With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...

Torture TV

The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media

U.S. Vice President Pence demands Iran release Christian sentenced to prison

‘Whether Sunni, Sufi, Baha’i, Jewish or Christian, America will stand up for people of faith’