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


Revelers chant 'Death to Israel, US, UK' on Iran revolution anniversary

Some attendees held photos of the late general of Iran's elite IRGC, Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in an American drone strike in 2020.

Iranians ride on motorcycles as they participate in the celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2022.

Iran’s new elite are a major challenge to the West - analysis

New research from the Tony Blair Institute exposes a new class of highly indoctrinated technocrats in Iran.

 Will Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi lead the breakout to military-grade uranium?

Iranian IRGC Navy says it monitors US signals in Gulf

Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC navy, visited Farvar, Siri and Bumousi islands among other places recently.

This picture released by the U.S. Navy allegedly shows a ship of the Iranian Navy and members of the Iranian forces boarding civilian tanker WILA en-route to the UAE, in international waters in the Strait of Hormuz, August 12, 2020. Picture taken on August 12, 2020

US Islamic scholar calls on followers to rise up against 'tyrant' America

"You are seeing what a police state is like. You have to demand your rights from that tyrant," he said.

People take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, US, June 18, 2020

Iran’s Islamic 'revolution has no borders,’ says Torkilmaz

The US government has declared Iran's regime to be the worst state-sponsor of terrorism.

PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE  in Beirut, where Iranian-backed Hezbollah has tried to intervene more in politics

What the Iranian regime really wants – and what the West refuses to see

The original goals of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 were clearly stated at the time– the destruction of Western-style democracy and its way of life and the imposition of Shi’ite Islam on the west.

Iranian wrestlers carry portraits of Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and today’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the opening ceremony of the Takhti Cup tournament in Tehran in 1998

Adviser to Iran’s Khamenei is looking to 'raze Tel Aviv to the ground'

In a recent interview, Mohsen Rezaei said that Iran would use any US activity as a pretext to attack Israel.

Mohsen Rezaee

Inside Iran’s push to get Hezbollah to take a role in Iraq

Why is Hezbollah the go-to, with thousands of fighters and support base barely in the hundreds of thousands, when Iraqi Shi’ites number in the millions?

An Iranian carries the Iranian and Hezbollah flags during the commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Tehran, Iran February 11, 2020

Iranians mark Islamic Revolution anniversary amid US tensions

Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the United States last month after a US drone strike killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visits the grave of Imam Iran's late founder of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on the occasion of the anniversary of Khoemeini's return to Iran, in Tehran, Iran February 1, 2020

German president mistakenly congratulates Iran's regime for its revolution

The office of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced it would not send the Iranian regime a congratulatory email on the anniversary of the revolution - then accidentally sent it anyway.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes ambassador of Iran to Germany Mahmoud Farazandeh, at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, January 13, 2020