Islamic revolution

Iran demolishes Gohardasht Prison watchtower, putting evidence of regime’s crimes at risk

Human rights advocates warned that redevelopment of Gohardasht Prison could erase evidence from a site linked to the 1988 massacre of political prisoners and decades of abuse.

A noose with mock flowers next to portraits of executed Iranian prisoners, and anti-regime activists in the background denouncing Iran's death penalty policies, in Paris, France, October 11, 2025.
Police officers and Spanish soldiers escort a big group of migrants to the border to take them out of Spain, after mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish territory, in Ceuta, Spain, August 1, 2026.

Moroccan nomads pour into Ceuta as Spanish PM remains nonchalant – opinion

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei (right) is seen in a screengrab of an undated video shared by Iranian state media on August 10, 2026

Khamenei, who hasn't been seen in months, calls for 'unity among Muslims' in post to Gulf States

Then-Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, pictured in 1951.

Rethinking 1953: Deconstructing the myth of Mosaddegh’s democratic legitimacy - opinion


How losing homes in the Los Angeles wildfires re-traumatized Jews who escaped Iran

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: 42 years ago, Mahnaz, Firouz, and their then-small children had escaped the fanatic violence and persecution of Iran in the middle of the night.

 AT LEAST 29 people were killed, more than 200,000 people were forced to evacuate, and over 16,000 structures were destroyed or damaged. The economic toll from the fires is estimated at over $250 billion. Here, an aerial view of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire is seen in March.

Israel should support the South Azerbaijan's independence from Iran - opinion

Since we assume that Iran fears the independence of Southern Azerbaijan and given the strong ties between Northern Azerbaijan and Israel, why shouldn't Israel have ties with Southern Azerbaijan?

A funeral is held for late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran.

46 Years of tyranny: How Iran's Islamic Revolution betrayed its promises - opinion

Anything that was and is against Western culture and tradition is embraced by certain influential intellectuals.

AN UNDATED picture handed out by the PA shows Palestinian president Yasser Arafat and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini during a meeting in Tehran

Iranian Imam shot dead in Kazeroun attack in third such killing since 1979

Sabahi had served as the Imam of Kharameh for ten years before returning to Kazeroun in November 2019.

 Hojjatoleslam Va Moslemeen Mohammad Sabahi.

Under pressure, second-class Iranian Jews endorse radical candidate Ghalibaf for president

Tehran-born Iran expert Beni Sabti said that the country's Jewish community had never come out for a candidate before.

 Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks during a campaign event in Tehran

Biden's Iranian non-deal: The controversial path to engagement - opinion

“Rumors about a nuclear deal, interim or otherwise, are false and misleading,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists in June.

 THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama delivers a statement about the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six major world powers, as his vice president, Joe Biden, looks on, in the East Room of the White House, in July 2015.

Israel received critical Iran intel from IDF soldier's 15-year side project

SWO (res.) E. began monitoring Iranian communications in the 1960s, back when they were still an ally.

 IDF SWO (res.) E. is seen meeting with senior military officials to discuss Iran in this undated photo.

Iran accuses Israel, Western intelligence of planning civil war in Iran - foreign minister

The recent protests have turned into one of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

 Demonstrators stand in front of a wall of the former U.S. embassy with anti-U.S. murals during the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2021

Iran court issues death sentence against man who killed two clerics

Officials said the attacker was a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views.

 Shiite clerics walk inside the shrine of Imam Ali ,on the first time of religious school called (al-Hawza al-Ilmiyyah) reopening since the the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, ,in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq November 10, 2021.

UAE de facto ruler sees Iran, Islamists as threat to ambitious Gulf safe haven

Mohammed began wielding power in a period when his half-brother President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, who died on Friday.

 Women walk past the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 11, 2021