Nowruz

Ceasefire with Tehran doesn’t end the regime’s war on Iranians

A state with public backing does not flood its cities with checkpoints, expand executions and shut down the internet.

Tehran Regime Marks Persian New Year With Public Hangings

Iranians’ greatest fear is not the bombs exploding around them, but the hangman’s noose wielded by their own rulers. Not content with the mass slaughter of some 40,000 unarmed Iranians during the...

Israel Targets Tehran Regime’s Repression Infrastructure

Israel Targets Tehran Regime’s Repression Force: Israel escalated its strikes against members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Basij paramilitary force in Iran on March...

Iran braces for internal unrest as US and Israeli attacks persist (March 14-16 updates)

From March 14 to 16, US and Israeli operations continued targeting key elements of the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities, including missile infrastructure, naval command sites, and facilities...

Over the Barrel of a Gun: Syria’s Deal With the SDF

“Our Kurdish people, descendants of Saladin, beware of believing claims that we seek harm against you,” Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said in a televised address on January 16 to Syria’s...

Iran’s brave protesters are fighting for freedom — here’s how Trump can help

Iran is once again convulsed by mass protest — and this time, the ground beneath the ayatollahs seems to be genuinely cracking. The end of Tehran’s totalitarian repression and...

Iranians Challenge the Regime by Celebrating Cyrus the Great

A tribute to an ancient and pre-Islamic king is now a form of protest against a modern Islamist theocracy. October 29 marked Cyrus the Great Day, celebrated by Iranians across the country. Though not...

Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s

Iran’s military budget is growing: What does that mean for the Middle East?

Iran wants to increase the accuracy of its range and the overall number of its ballistic missiles.

Maximum Support

A New Strategic Direction for U.S. Iran Policy

U.S. Presidential Elections Loom Over the Iranian Rial

Tehran’s inflation troubles present a critical vulnerability for the clerical regime.

Biden’s tone-deaf Iran policy ignores what the Iranian people want: freedom, not terrorism

Persian New Year is over, but the Biden administration’s missteps continue. These own goals perfectly characterize Washington’s policy toward Tehran: inattentive and tone-deaf. Sending Iranians...

Iranian Rial’s Depreciation Persists Into Persian New Year

The Iranian rial struck a record low on March 24, trading at about 613,000 to the U.S. dollar in the unregulated market. Since January, the dollar has appreciated about 21 percent...

Regime in Tehran May Be Facing Internal Instability

Latest Developments Two documents reportedly produced by the Islamic Republic of Iran and obtained by Iran International shed new light on the extent of the regime’s economic woes and internal instability....

Tehran Can Afford to Fight COVID-19 Even Without Sanctions Relief

The Iranian government is leading an international campaign to pressure the United States to lift sanctions. American and European negotiators of the ill-fated Iran nuclear deal, along with dozens of pressure...

Should the United States Lift Sanctions on Iran to Address Its Coronavirus Outbreak?

Iran is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East. The Islamic Republic’s leadership has engaged in a massive campaign aimed at lifting sanctions imposed on it for its malign activities,...

Coronavirus Dashes Iranian Hopes of Emerging from Multi-Year Recession

After a catastrophic year in which Iran’s clerical dictatorship watched the country’s economy shrink by 9.5 percent under pressure from U.S. sanctions, the first weeks of 2020 brought some hope that...