Published by the Atlantic Council Iran is set to hold elections for its parliament and its Assembly of Experts, the body tasked with supervising and picking the supreme leader, on March 1. But while the elections held under the Islamic Republic have never been free or fair, the 2024 elections are the most restricted polls …
Published by ISPI Online For the past quarter of a century, Iranians who demand sociopolitical change have often alternated between strategies of electoral participation and street protests. Closing of one avenue has often encouraged resorting to the other. We thus saw massive electoral participation of pro-change voters in parliamentary and presidential polls of 1997, 2000, 2001, …
Published by Spectator On Thursday, a 60-year-old Japanese crime boss appeared in a New York court to respond to charges that he helped traffic illicit material from Myanmar to Thailand. You might expect this to be a story about the Southeast Asian drug trade – it’s a vibrant business after all. In fact the supposed …
Published by the Wall Street Journal On Sept. 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Tehran after being arrested for allegedly wearing an improper veil. Her death sparked a wave of protests across Iran, the latest in a series of uprisings that have challenged the country’s Islamist regime over the past 15 …
انتشار در ایران‌وایر ضربه سختی بر قامت جنبش مبارزه با استبداد ولادیمیر پوتین در روسیه فرود آمده است. کرملین اعلام کرد که الکسی ناوالنی، سرشناس‌ترین مخالف پوتین، مدت کوتاهی پس از پیاده‌روی در زندانی در منطقه قطب شمال روسیه که در آن به‌سر می‌برد از پا افتاده و در ۴۷ سالگی درگذشت. درس‌های زندگی ناوالنی …
Published in the Atlantic Iran and the United States have been in a shadow war with each other for years. That the conflict has never spilled into all-out war is only because both countries have kept to certain unwritten red lines and rules of engagement. One such rule, rarely broken in recent years, is: Thou …
Published by IranWire The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have been engaged in an indirect conflict for years, with fire being exchanged between militias backed by Tehran and US soldiers based in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. But the Sunday drone attack that targeted US soldiers near the Jordanian-Syrian border is unique: It …
انتشار در ایران‌وایر حملات متقابل بین گروه‌های شبه‌نظامی مورد حمایت جمهوری اسلامی و نیروهای آمریکا در منطقه، حدود ۲۰ سال است که در جریانند و به‌خصوص در چند ماه اخیر، در پی حمله حماس به مردم اسراییل در روز ۷اکتبر، شدت گرفته‌اند. اما حملات پهپادی روز یکشنبه به آمریکایی‌ها در نزدیکی مرز اردن و سوریه، …
انتشار در ایران‌وایر کمتر پدیده اجتماعی در ایرانِ سال‌های اخیر، به حساسیت و اهمیت حضور افغانستانی‌ها در کشور بوده است؛ جمعیتی که با پنج میلیون نفر، بخشی جدا ناشدنی از جامعه ایران معاصر هستند. با این همه، نه تنها توسط حکومت که از سوی بخش‌های گسترده‌ای از جامعه ایران مورد هجمه‌های مختلف قرار دارند. جای …