Mehdi Oghbai
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Basij paramilitary forces patrol the streets at night amid heightened security crackdowns across Iranian cities – July 2025 (opens the original)
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Three powerful explosions were reported in Zahedan on September 30, the fourth anniversary of the city’s “Bloody Friday” massacre, adding a new security incident to a week already marked by armed clashes in neighboring IranShahr. Local sources reported three blasts in Zahedan’s Jomhouri district, around Police Station 19, and published images from the area. State media confirmed that an explosion had been heard there. Zahedan Governor Jamshid Rakhshani-Nasab described it as involving a “sonic ob
An official handout photo distributed by the Iranian regime's judiciary media, staging a line of detainees facing a wall—a visual tactic routinely deployed by state security apparatuses to project total authority (opens the original)
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The Iranian regime’s judiciary is widening financial punishment against opponents, while senior institutions are simultaneously threatening action against figures who publicly advocate a referendum or an end to the war on terms outside the ruling establishment’s approved line. Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi announced that authorities had identified 2,191 bank accounts belonging to 394 people and seized 37 vehicles, accusing their owners of cooperating with a “hostile enemy” during recent conflicts
A military-style parade in Rasht, northern Iran, during the event titled “Parade of Devoted Daughters," Friday, April 24, 2026 (opens the original)
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As Iran’s ruling establishment prepares to stage a massive street mobilization in Tehran under the banner of the “Jan-Fadayan-e Iran” (Devotees of Iran) exercise, officials are portraying the event as a demonstration of national unity and popular strength. Yet the scale, rhetoric and timing of the campaign suggest a deeper concern inside the clerical establishment: fear that the next major challenge to its survival will emerge not on distant battlefields, but in Iran’s own streets. Scheduled for
Protesters stand on a nighttime city street in Iran during the January 2026 uprising (opens the original)
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Iran’s crisis in September 2026 can be measured in missiles, oil tankers and inflation. Iranian crude loadings collapsed from roughly 2 million barrels a day in March to about 220,000–255,000 in August. The IMF expects inflation to approach 70 percent. A U.S. naval blockade has accomplished what years of sanctions could not: choking one of Tehran’s principal sources of foreign currency. But the regime’s present crisis did not begin at sea, nor did it begin with the regional wars that eventually
MP Mehdi Kouchakzadeh confronts Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during a heated public session of the regime’s Majlis (opens the original)
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The clerical dictatorship is facing a fresh convergence of economic and political pressures as the rial fell to another record low, medical costs pushed some patients out of treatment, and factional warfare over negotiations spilled from official media into loyalist street rallies. On September 9, 2026, the free-market dollar climbed to about 233,900 tomans, nearly 13 percent above its level two weeks earlier and roughly 25 percent higher than a month ago. The ruling establishment’s factional co
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