Category: 1. Iran

In 2009, many demonstrators chanted “Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein,” framing a disputed election in the language of religious legitimacy and around Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister who challenged the vote.

Sixteen years later, clips…

Popular unrest is not unfolding in isolation. It comes amid sustained external pressure, legal constraint and strategic exposure that have narrowed the Islamic Republic’s room for maneuver.

The protests are best understood not as a discrete…

RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has spoken to a protester who says he witnessed Iranian security forces shoot and kill demonstrators in Malekshahi, in the western Ilam Province, on January 3. Mohammad Heydari Ilami said security forces then raided a…

Progress has stalled on implementing a March deal to merge the Kurds’ semi-autonomous administration and military into Syria’s new government, and tensions have occasionally erupted into clashes, particularly in Aleppo, which has two…