For decades, Iranians have confronted one of the world’s most entrenched authoritarian systems with little more than resilience and collective resolve. Iran’s future cannot be negotiated without the ...

Ongoing nationwide protests—now exceeding ten consecutive days—have demonstrated that the Iranian people categorically reject ...

Much of Iran's largely secular middle class has been squeezed to the wall by the cost of living, and “no military or police ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has apparently taken precautions in case of an assassination attempt against him, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Citing unnamed Iranian officials ...

Upon his return to Iran, and subsequent elevation of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader in what was once a stable and secular Iran, the country has devolved into a fundamentalist ...

Karmel Melamed, an Iranian American journalist based in Los Angeles, has been closely watching recent events between Israel and Iran. A contributor to several Jewish news outlets, including The Jewish ...

Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini's mass mobilization of Islam showed that ...

TEHRAN, Iran— Iran’s hard-line president urged students yesterday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers, another sign of his determination to strengthen Islamic fundamentalism ...

As tensions rise over President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Iran, a last-minute protest Sunday at the Colorado State Capitol drew people voicing opposition to the prospect of another ...

As President Donald Trump's historic ceasefire takes effect, uncertainty over the future of Iran and the push for regime change has the main Iranian opposition groups verbally fighting it out to ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with the high-ranking Hamas delegation in Tehran. -/Iranian Supreme Leader's Office/dpa Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...