Iranians seal windows and store food and water as they prepare for attack

January 31, 2026

While the US builds up its military assets in the Gulf, Iranians quietly brace for a new war

Iranians wait for minibuses after arriving at the Razi-Kapikoy border crossing in north-eastern Turkey on 31 January 2026 (AFP)

Iran’s Nationwide Internet Blackout Has Left Us Feeling Hopeless and Helpless

January 30, 2026
Ali Reza Nemati

As Donald Trump threatens further military action, the sense of exhaustion in Iran is palpable.

An Iranian woman looks at an electronic board displayed outside a currency exchange shop in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 20, 2026, following recent unrest in Iran.

West’s hypocrisy over Iran and Gaza proves a regime-change operation in Tehran

January 30, 2026

Far from expressing any condemnation against the Israeli regime, the U.S. and the EU (with minor exceptions) have maintained an odious silence.

US war with Iran demands strategy, not just strength

January 30, 2026
M A Hossain

If and when US attacks Iran, what does Trump expect to achieve—and can any of it realistically be delivered by military force?

A US assault on Iran could quickly spiral into a wider regional war. Image: US Army

“Prevent the Bloodshed”: Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on Iran Protests & U.S. Threats of Military Strikes

January 30, 2026
The latest reliable estimates of the death toll in Iran’s recent nationwide protests are growing, potentially reaching the tens of thousands. Some estimates place the number of civilians killed by government forces at 30,000 or more. We play a rare eyewitness account of the deadly massacre of protesters in Rasht, Iran, and speak to the Iranian filmmaker and political dissident Sepideh Farsi, who says U.S. military intervention “would only worsen the situation.” She warns that President Trump’s interest in U.S. military action on the country is “for business,” and “not for Iranian people.”

US aims to sway Saudi defence minister to get behind Iran strikes, sources say

January 29, 2026
Sean Mathews

As the Gulf urges the US to engage in diplomacy, the Trump administration is using a Washington visit to pressure the kingdom

The Biggest Threats the Iranian People Face Are America and Israel

January 30, 2026
Stan Cox

EU labels IRGC ‘terrorist organisation’ as Iran-US tensions roil

January 29, 2026

People walk past an anti-US billboard in Tehran, Iran, on 26 January 2026 (Majid Asgaripour/Wana via Reuters)

Iran vows to strike back 'like never before' as Trump intensifies war threats

January 28, 2026

The Islamic Republic has recently threatened to strike both Israel and US bases across West Asia if it comes under attack

‘No Retreat’ – Iran in Control of Hormuz as US ‘Armada’ Deploys, Regional Mediation Intensifies

January 28, 2026

Iran denied recent contact with the US as Washington deployed major military assets, Tehran carried out executions, and regional powers pushed for de-escalation amid mounting war fears.

Iran's battle for survival is the Arab world's fight too

January 28, 2026
David Hearst

Everyone in the region, whatever their past history with the Islamic Republic, should do their utmost to defend Iran and guarantee its sovereignty

An anti-US and anti-Israel banner hangs on a building in Tehran on 27 January 2026, as a US naval strike group has deployed to Middle Eastern waters (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

January 28, 2026
( RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ) – A US aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East on January 27 as tensions mount over a possible strike against Iran after a brutal crackdown on protests that rights groups say killed thousands of people.

پلیس و سرود

 ترجمهٔ داستانی از نویسندهٔ بزرگ آمریکائی، اُهنری <توضیحات مترجم در این دو ابرو اضافه شده‌ا‌ند>.ا

The Cop and the Anthem

<A Story by William Sidney Porter, or O'Henry> 

For Iran, another US–Israeli attack would be an 'existential war'

January27, 2026
Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Tehran will respond in a way that eliminates any incentive for restraint, unleashing a conflict that would be impossible to control

Only Expanding the General Strike Can Stop ICE's Reign of Terror

January 24, 2026

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

January 25, 2026
Mahsa Ghaffari
(The Conversation) – Iran’s latest wave of unrest is often explained in familiar terms: economic collapse, sanctions, inflation, or sudden political anger. But this framing misses what is actually unfolding.

The Middle East is at a tipping point as the U.S. fuels crisis across the region

January 24, 2026
Mitchell Plitnick

Long-standing crises in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, Iraq, and Iran are deepening as the U.S. imprint on the Middle East shows no signs of weakening.

US, China once had rare-earth aces in the hole but the US folded

January23, 2026
Ravi Kant

Now China has a kill switch for US defense and high-tech industry, and that explains Trump’s lust for Greenland and Canada

Iran: The Eurasian Lock

January 22, 2026
Abbas al-Zein

Iran’s geography has turned it into a strategic hinge – one that anchors Russia’s southern depth and gives China an escape from US maritime containment.

Pictures leaked of people killed in Iran’s violent crackdown

January 21, 2026
Bryony Gooch
The faces of hundreds of people killed during Iran’s violent crackdown on protests have been revealed in leaked photographs, the BBC reports.

Mujo in Iran

January 21, 2026
Biljana Vankovska
Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that generations of Yugoslavs grew up with. Wars took many lives, erased towns, and destroyed futures, yet Mujo survived even the darkest days of the Bosnian conflict. One particular joke has stayed with me for more than three decades, because it captures, better than most analyses, the arrogance of superficial Western “expertise.”

انقلاب در ایران

 آیا ایران به یک انقلاب احتیاج دارد، و یا رژیم حاکم بر ایران می‌بایست کم‌کم رنگ ایرانی‌ بخود بگیرد و در جامعه تحلیل شود؟ این پرسشی است که بارها توسط سررشته‌داران و اندیشمندان در این رشته تجزیه و تحلیل شده است. مبارزه با چنین رژیمی‌ بسیار دشوار است. چرا که این رژیم ددمنشی است که انقلاب را دزدید، سپس هر کسی‌ را که در ایران به طریقی به رژیم سابق وابسته بود با بیرحمی کشت، و چنانچه دستش به آنها در خارج از ایران می‌رسید، بر سر آنها جایزه گذاشت و آنان را نیز ترور کرد. سپس هر جنبشی را که بوی مخالفت از آن بر می‌آمد در گلو خفه کرد.ا

Drone attack in Russia, hybrid war in Iran, presidential kidnapping in Venezuela, and the grand strategy of the United States

January 20, 2026
Mauricio Metri

They are all directly or indirectly linked to the new Grand Strategy, whose main challenge is China.

Trump: It’s Time to Look for New Leadership in Iran

January 18, 2026
Kyle Anzalone

After backing away from bombing Iran last week, Trump threatened regime change in Tehran

Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s her point

January 15, 2026
Richard Nedjat-Haiem

Before Beyoncé, before Cher, before Madonna, there was Googoosh.

Reading Tehran’s Message: Protest, Power, and the Limits of US Coercion

January 18, 2026

Iran’s Supreme Leader accused the US of orchestrating unrest as protests continue, while analysts say Washington’s direct involvement marks a dangerous shift in pressure on Tehran.

Iran has defeated the US – Khamenei

January 18, 2026

Washington must be held accountable for instigating unrest in the country, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader has said

Israel Fears It Can’t Defend Against Iran

January 17, 2026
Joe Lauria

Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump to urge him to hold off on bombing Iran because, reports say, Israel feels vulnerable to Iran’s counterattack, writes Joe Lauria.

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

January 17, 2026

Iran’s Khamenei says US, Israel links behind ‘thousands killed’ in protests

January 17, 2026

The country’s supreme leader says foreign-backed protests ‘caused massive damage and killed several thousands’.

Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink

January16, 2026
The Iranian regime’s internet shutdown, initiated on Jan. 8, 2026, has severely diminished the flow of information out of the country. Without internet access, little news about the national protests that flared between Dec. 30, 2025, and Jan. 13, 2026, and the regime’s violent crackdown has reached the world. Many digital rights and internet monitoring groups have assessed the current shutdown to be the most sophisticated and most severe in Iran’s history.
We are a social scientist and two computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Internet Intelligence Lab who study internet connectivity.

Iran’s Protesters Are Caught Between State Repression and Foreign Intervention

January 15, 2026
Alex Shams

Both Trump and the Iranian government are treating Iranian protesters as political pawns.

“This Regime Will Fall”: Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship

January 15, 2026
With Iran gripped by nationwide protests that activists say have left at least 2,600 people dead, we recently spoke with renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, It Was Just an Accident, was shot entirely in secret inside Iran and won the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The film has since been shortlisted for an Oscar in the international feature category. Panahi dedicated a recent New York Film Critics Circle Award to Iranian protesters.

 

Iran’s protests have spread across provinces, despite skepticism and concern among ethnic groups

January 15, 2026
When Iran’s ongoing protests began in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Dec. 28 2025, the government initially treated them as manageable and temporary.

Protester in Punak, Tehran on Jan. 10, 2026

Right Message, Wrong Messengers: A Brief History of Oil and U.S. Empire in Iran

January 14, 2026
Eric Ross
Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has failed to meet their material needs and has answered demands for freedom and dignity with unconscionable violence and repression. At the same time, the U.S. has no political, legal, or moral basis to intervene in Iran. The dire state of the country, as is true of Venezuela and Cuba, the two other nations targeted by the latest neo-neoconservative regime change enthusiasts blinded by imperial hubris and a fetishization of military power, is in significant part the result of Washington’s own policies.
Since 1979, the U.S. has pursued policies aimed at ensuring the failure of the Iranian Revolution. In the decades that followed, and with particular acceleration under the Trump administration, this effort crystallized into a sanctions regime designed not to promote democracy or human rights but to drive ordinary Iranians into a state of immiseration. This strategy, deployed against governments that Washington unilaterally deems problematic, occasionally for defensible reasons but far more often for refusing to subordinate themselves to U.S. imperial and corporate power, has been linked to an estimated 38 million deaths worldwide since 1971.

Trump’s Iran tariff threat risks reigniting US-China trade war

January 14, 2026
Nigel Green

Threatened 25% tax on all countries that trade with Iran is a deliberate shot across China’s bow

China is Iran's biggest oil customer. Image: X Screengrab

جنبش در ایران

می‌گویند بزرگترین، و در واقع تنها خدمتی که جمهوری اسلامی به ایرانیان کرد شناساندن اسلام بود. در نتیجه پس از حدود نیم قرن دزدی و ارتشائ زمامداران این سرزمین به نام اسلام، گروهی‌ به مطالعهٔ تاریخ اسلام و چگونگیِ به وجود آمدنِ این دین پرداختند، و فجایع آن را در کتب تاریخی‌ مشاهده کردند. شاید این باعث شود که اکثر ایرانیان کنجکاو شوند و بهترین تاریخی‌ که در مورد اسلام به نگارش درآمده، یعنی‌ تاریخ طبری، را مطالعه کنند. همچنین، شاید این آغازی باشد که خوی به اسلام و ایراد اصطلاحات اسلامی و عربی‌ نیز از گفته‌ها زدوده شود.ا

Iran state TV acknowledges 'a lot of martyrs' as death toll surpasses 3,000: report

January 13, 2026
Greg Norman-Diamond
Iranian state television acknowledged Tuesday that the Islamic Republic has lost "a lot of martyrs" in ongoing anti-government protests sweeping the country, a report said.

Will Iran’s crackdown playbook work this time?

January 13, 2026
Amin Naeni

Past suppression techniques not having the same effect as regime wobbles like never before under protest pressure

Iranian protesters block a street in Tehran on January 9. Photo: MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images via The Conversation

Report: Military Tells Trump It Needs More Time to Prepare for War With Iran

January 11, 2026
Kyle Anzalone

Military commanders in the Middle East want more time to prepare for Iranian counterattacks

Iran blocks internet and deploys IRGC as widespread protests continue

January 11, 2026

Revolutionary Guard Corps says protecting achievement of 1979 revolution is 'red line', as Trump issues warning to Tehran

Iran’s army pledges to defend national interests after US backs protesters

January 10, 2026

Iran’s ‍elite IRGC, which operates separately from army, also says safeguarding country’s security is a ‘red line’.

This screengrab taken from a video shot on January 6, 2026 shows Iranian security forces using tear gas to disperse protesters at the iconic Tehran's Grand Bazaar [AFP]

Russia wants Ukraine peace deal – Trump

January 9, 2026

President Putin was “all done” on several occasions, but Zelensky wouldn’t negotiate, the US leader has said

FILE PHOTO. Firefighter crews work to extinguish flames following a Russian strike on Kiev, Ukraine

Grand Illusion

January 8, 2026
Chris Hedges

We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”

Made in the USSA - by Mr. Fish

Fears of Wider War Over Venezuela Oil as US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker

January7, 2026

“That is a confrontation of Cold War proportions,” warned one observer.

Jake Johnson

دنیای بیرون از زمین

نخستین موضوعاتی که افکار بشر را همواره بخود معطوف داشته‌ا‌ند، پاسخ به پرسش‌های اساسی‌ برای زنده ماندن و زندگی‌ کردن بوده است، از جمله: چگونه می‌توان بر گرسنگی چیره شد؟ چگونه می‌توان از سرما و گرما و سایر عوارض طبیعی در امان ماند؟چگونه می‌توان محیط مناسب‌تری برای زندگی‌ فراهم آورد؟ پس از آنکه احتیاجات نخستین برآورده شدند، پرسش‌هائی در گسترهٔ وسیع‌تری ذهن انسان را به خود مشغول می‌دارند. از جمله: سایر نُقاط زمین که خارج از محل زندگی‌ من می‌باشند در کجا قرار دارند و چگونه می‌توانم به آن نقاط سفر کنم؟ من از کجا آمده‌ام و عاقبت به کجا می‌روم؟ کرهٔ زمین چگونه شکل گرفته و از کجا آمده است؟ا

آندرومدا نزدیکترین کهکشان به کهکشان ما، یعنی‌ راه شیری است

IRAN CIVIL WAR BEGINS: Revolution Is Happening! | Mearsheimer Analysis

 https://youtu.be/2rLWEf0LdsY?si=LH8NiXe8-VP9gXNh

Israel's arms manufacturers benefit from EU funding for cutting edge civilian research

January 6, 2026
Carolina Pedrazzi

Public data shows that Israeli arms companies have won grants for civilian projects despite a strict EU ban on funding research that can be used in warfare

A view of destruction caused by Israel's military in Gaza, December 2025 (AFP)

‘Hands off Venezuela!’: Baltimoreans protest Trump invasion

January 5, 2026
Maximillian Alvarez

“This war, every bomb dropped, is not for us. This is for Trump and the billionaires. And we are here to stand against that and say that Baltimore stands with the people of Venezuela”