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How Iran’s Dictators Laid the Foundation for the Country's Coronavirus Crisis

While the disease itself is, of course, an apolitical phenomenon, Iran’s repressive, theocratic political system has played a role in the especially high toll that coronavirus is taking on the Iranian people.

Shay Khatiri

21 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?

Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.

Art Keller

20 Jan 2020 · 12 min read

Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists

Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.

Kaveh Shahrooz

8 Jan 2020 · 5 min read

PODCAST 66: Alireza Nader on the Political Unrest in Iran and the Regime's Brutal Crackdown

Alireza Nader, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about the recent political protests in Iran and the regime’s brutal response.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

11 Dec 2019 · 1 min read

Iran Protests: It's not about Gas Prices

The protests went on for a few weeks, until the regime successfully repressed them with a violent crackdown, but economic conditions only worsened.

Shay Khatiri

28 Nov 2019 · 8 min read

The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents

Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.

Mariam Memarsadeghi

20 Jan 2019 · 10 min read

Notes from the Eye of a State-Sponsored Social Media Storm

The deliberate downplaying of dissent for both Persian and English language audiences is indicative of an attempt to fool Iranians back into submission at a time when the regime has never been more anxious about its survival.

Mariam Memarsadeghi

13 Oct 2018 · 9 min read