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Learn about the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, where thousands gather in Tehran, their calls for death to America and Israel capturing...

Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amidst tensions in the Middle East. Thousands of Iranians took part in rallies across the c...

Why Iran’s Gen Z is protesting, and why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps won’t back down. These articles explain Tehran’s difficult 2022.

Iran has proof that Western nations were involved in protests that have swept the country, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The protests, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest for "inappropriate attire", pose one of the strongest challenges to the country's clerical…

Back in September, when Iran's protest movement caught the world by surprise, conventional thinking was that with patience and ruthlessness, the regime would eventually outlast whatever came its way. After all, that has been the playbook so many times since the Islamic revolution of 1979. But is this time different?

On the 56th day of the Iranian riots, a senior security official expected the protests "to subside," while the Iranian judiciary threatened to establish courts to "firmly handle" those who cause "turmoil" or "commit crimes" during the anti-government protests sweeping the country. The protests constitute one of the biggest challenges…

'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

The biggest obstacle to regime change is a security force designed to protect the regime to the point of civil war.

Iran’s official IRNA news agency reports that an attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city has killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard