Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

DARK SECRETS: 4 | Rare Historical Photos

Iran Tries To Coopt and Crush Feminists at the Same Time

After a month of tear gas and beatings and gunfire, Iranians may not be convinced to move on so easily.

Reason

Commentary: Iran regime on borrowed time

Despite weeks of brutal repression, ordinary Iranians of all ages and all sections of society, and from all regions, continue their mass protests, calling for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule. Their message is unmistakable. The Iranian Revolution has failed. The regime it spawned is doomed. The only question…

Tribune News Service

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Will Never Stand Down

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

Foreign Policy

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Women around the world are cutting their hair in solidarity with Iran protesters

Protests have broken out across Iran after Mahsa Amini, 22, was pronounced dead while in police custody for breaching the Islamic Republic's strict female dress code

Daily Mirror

Iran protests: Mahsa Amini’s family being sent death threats, says relative

Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being detained for alleged violations of the country's strict dress code

Evening Standard

‘The fire of our anger is still burning’: protesters in Iran speak out

Those taking to the streets say Mahsa Amini’s death has ignited a deep unrest that won’t end until the Islamic Republic is overthrown

The Guardian - UK

Iran: the hijab protests are now massive, but a revolution will need the military to change sides

More than three weeks after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Ahmini for disobeying Iran’s strict laws, which make it compulsory for women to wear the hijab – or Islamic headscarf – protests continue to rage on the streets of all major cities. On Saturday, protesters even managed to hack into…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Iran protests keep pressure on Raisi as deaths reportedly rise

Protests against Iran’s leadership entered their fourth week with further reports on social media of violent crackdowns by police, with rights groups reporting the deaths of at least four people by security forces over the weekend.

Tribune News Service

'A time bomb': Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests

Anger among civilians is rising in a majority Kurdish district in northwestern Iran that has become one of the hotspots of protests

The Independent UK

Iran’s brave young women must break their own chains. The west won’t help

The uprising against Tehran’s vile regime could fail like those in Hong Kong, Belarus, Egypt and Syria – but this time something feels different

The Guardian - UK

‘Things will never go back’: Iran’s protesters battling police on the streets in fight for real change

The regime is rattled by the anger that has erupted since Mahsa Amini’s death, but overthrowing the Islamic Republic will require more protesters and firepower, reports Borzou Daragahi

The Independent UK

Iran: 'hijab' protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic

Three weeks after the violent death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police for the crime of wearing her hijab improperly, protests continue to rage across the country. These demonstrations defy both repression by security forces in the streets of major cities and…

The Conversation

Are the protests in Iran just doomed to flare and then be crushed?

Regime is again using violence in crackdown, but leaderless movement of young women has left it unsure about how to respond

The Guardian - UK

‘Nothing to lose’: Iran’s protesters step up their defiance as a potential showdown looms

TEHRAN, Iran — Twice now, the mass protests roiling Iran have reached even her deeply conservative neighborhood. Shahrzad, a 36-year-old teacher who lives with her parents and acts as their caregiver, has so far heeded her promise to them not to join, although she wants to.

Los Angeles Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

‘They’re taking him away’: Iran unrest continues, as leader blames west

More than 130 people have died in demonstrations in Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini, some of the worst street violence since the 1979 revolution

Reuters

Iran riot police clash with students protesting young woman's death

Iranian security forces clashed with students at a prominent university in Tehran on Sunday, social and state media reported, in the latest sign of a deadly clampdown on nationwide protests that were ignited by the death in custody of a young woman.

Reuters

Analysis-Iran leaders in 'disarray' struggle to close ranks over protests - analysts, official

Iran's clerical rulers are eager to crush mass anti-government protests, but maneuvering over the eventual succession to the supreme leader and rifts over security tactics have complicated efforts to curb the unrest, three analysts and an official said.

France 24

‘Who’s going to defend us?’: Iran protest movement wins wave of support in West

The Iranian protesters who have demonstrated across the country for 12 consecutive nights over the death of Mahsa Amini are keen to amplify their message in the West as international observers focus on the theocratic regime’s repression of women.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mahsa Amini’s Death Is a ‘Tipping Point’, Says US-Based Iranian Journalist

Masih Alinejad, a US-based Iranian journalist and women's rights activist, said the protests erupting in dozens of cities over the death of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody is a "tipping point" for Iran. "For the Islamic Republic, the murder of Mahsa Amini is becoming a tipping point…

Reuters

Mahsa Amini's death is a 'tipping point', says U.S.-based Iranian journalist

Masih Alinejad, a U.S.-based Iranian journalist and women's rights activist, said the protests erupting in dozens of cities over the death of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody is a "tipping point" for Iran.

The Guardian - UK

‘Something big is happening’: the Iranians risking everything to protest

Five people share their experiences of the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody, as hope of real change grows

The Independent UK

Sam Asghari calls Iran government ‘terrorists’ in strongly worded Instagram video

‘[Iran’s Islamic republic] are the biggest terrorist for its own people,’ the Iranian-American model says

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Woman's death in custody sparks Iran protests

Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code

The Independent UK

A woman’s death fuels a nation’s rage: Iran erupts over 22-year-old who died after hijab arrest

Father alleges Mahsa Amini was assaulted during arrest

France 24

‘I will never wear a headscarf again’: Outrage after woman dies in the custody of Iran's 'morality police'

The death of young woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called "morality police" in September has enraged people across the country, leading to three days of protests, strikes and sit-ins in the capital Tehran and in Iran's Kurdish region. Security forces have responded with force, beating and…

1 2 3 4 5

People

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

11 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.