Tehran’s unveiling of a towering statue depicting the Roman Emperor Valerian kneeling before pre-Islamic Persian King Shapur I has renewed criticism of the Islamic Republic’s appeal to nationalist sentiment following the June war with Israel.
Hardliners in Iran have seized on oblique remarks made by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei earlier this week as a green light to crack down on women who have shunned the hijab amid lax enforcement in recent years.
Reports that YouTube access had been restored for students at the University of Tehran while it remains blocked for the wider population, though denied swiftly by officials, triggered outrage among critics of Iran's censorship of the internet.
Iran’s latest attempt to curb soaring food prices—delegating the distribution of staple goods in Tehran to the city’s municipality—has again exposed a deeper truth about the country’s economic crisis: quick fixes rarely work when the foundations are broken.
The latest chatter in Tehran’s political circles is that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may be eyeing a bigger role for former Revolutionary Guards general and current parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
Zohran Mamdani’s stomping win in New York’s mayoral race drew starkly different reactions in Iran, with views on the first Muslim to run America’s largest city reflecting a bitterly divided political landscape.
An Iranian economist detained this week had suggested that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei helped empower the country's ultra-hardliners, in remarks that quickly drew Tehran's ire and underscored a widening clampdown on critical voices.
Combative comments by senior officials in Tehran about Iran’s nuclear program have drawn sharp criticism at home and abroad, with analysts warning that the rhetoric makes another round of war on Iran more likely.
As Iran demands strict new "France-style" concessions from Telegram, officials continue to use the banned app freely, fueling public anger and accusations that President Pezeshkian has failed to deliver on a campaign pledge to unfetter internet access.
The race for Tehran’s City Council elections is heating up among state-aligned factions almost entirely detached from an electorate which has largely quit the ballot box.
An outlet linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday conceded that life is getting harder for Iranian families, in a sign that economic malaise has become too severe to ignore even by the ruling establishment.
Iran’s ban on Halloween celebrations has turned plastic pumpkins into symbols of defiance, exposing deeper tensions over culture, joy and control in a nation long haunted by the politics of morality.
The collapse of Iran’s Ayandeh Bank resembles a national-scale Ponzi scheme, exposing how reckless lending, political patronage, and failed mega-projects drained public wealth.
The president who once stood triumphant after the 2015 nuclear deal is now under fierce attack from hardliners, with no public defense—a stark sign of how far Iran’s politics and society have shifted in the past decade.
The clash over Russia’s role in Iran has reached unprecedented levels, with the parliament speaker publicly attacking a former president and his foreign minister for speaking out against Moscow.
Prominent centrist figures in Tehran are calling for pragmatic measures including a rethink of relations with Washington to address Iran’s deepening economic problems and foreign policy challenges.
A viral celebrity interview has reignited debate in Iran over class privilege and widening social divides, exposing deep resentment toward wealth and the growing gulf between everyday struggle and elite detachment.
Many Iranians may have turned away from the ballot box in recent elections, but establishment factions are taking next year’s local polls as seriously as ever.
Hardliners in Tehran have grown more vocal in their opposition to renewed diplomacy with Washington following Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s defiant speech this week.
A blunt acknowledgment by Iran’s former state broadcasting chief that the country’s satellites ban and the so-called morality police had become “obsolete” has underscored how the state's strict social codes are eroding in practice.
The political storm unleashed over a leaked video depicting the daughter of Iran's ex-security chief in a revealing wedding dress shows no sign of calming, with claims of Israeli cyberwarfare pitted against suspicions of skullduggery within the ruling elite.
Tehran’s catalogue of political feuds appears to have grown with the dwindling presence of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei following the June war with Israel—a trend that, Iranian scholars warn, could push a country already rife with discontent to the brink.