Shahriar Kia
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Iranian regime's Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf (left) stares at MP Hamid Rasaee (right) delivers a heated protest during a session of Majlis (opens the original)
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For a system built around the fiction of a single, unquestioned political center, the quarrel over Abbas Araghchi’s New York contact with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has become unusually revealing. State television acknowledged the encounter. More importantly, Yahya Rahim Safavi, a senior military adviser to Mojtaba Khamenei, said the leader had given the government room to negotiate: “If the Leader has deemed it expedient and given the government a free hand in the negotiations, that is a very sig
Zahedan residents join anti-regime protests following Friday prayers during the 2022 uprising (opens the original)
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Amnesty International has identified 87 Iranian officials whose roles in the repression of the 2022 uprising warrant criminal scrutiny, tracing potential responsibility from the regime’s highest military leadership to provincial commanders, police chiefs and Interior Ministry officials. Published on September 16, 2026, Amnesty’s Architects of Atrocities investigation moves beyond documenting crimes against humanity to identifying individuals who, according to its findings, exercised authority ov
Iranian state TV footage of demolition work at the former Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj— September 2026 (opens the original)
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Iranian authorities have begun demolishing Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, one of the principal sites of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, raising urgent concerns that evidence potentially relevant to future investigations and prosecutions could be permanently destroyed. The demolition began on September 13, with officials saying the former prison site would be cleared for development and its surrounding walls removed within a month. Gohardasht occupies a central place in the documentary rec
File photo: A vote at the U.N. Security Council in New York (opens the original)
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Twenty years after the Iranian regime’s nuclear program was first reported to the United Nations Security Council, the file is back where Tehran has long sought to keep it from going. On September 9, 2026, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-member Board of Governors voted 23 to three, with eight abstentions, to report Iran to the Security Council for breaching its nonproliferation obligations. It is the first such referral since 2006. The immediate cause predates the current military co
Street vendors display rows of women’s flat shoes on a striped blanket along the sidewalk of Zand Street in Shiraz, southern Iran (opens the original)
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Iran’s currency crisis entered another threshold on September 6, when the free-market dollar briefly crossed 230,000 tomans before retreating to about 226,000. The regime’s Exchange Center was simultaneously quoting its managed remittance rate at 160,983 tomans, leaving a gap of more than 65,000 tomans between the administered and open markets. Even after the pullback, the dollar remained nearly 10 percent above its level at the beginning of the previous week. The regime’s own media are increasi
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