The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following military strikes on Iran has triggered severe volatility across global financial and energy markets.

As powerful leaders defy global norms and institutions falter, the question is no longer whether the world order is weakening, but what will replace it.

The targeted killing of Ali Khamenei by American and Israeli forces plunges the Islamic Republic into a precarious succession crisis while escalating regional military hostilities.

While Iran offered unprecedented concessions that could have made nuclear war impossible, Israel and the US have chosen another illegal war.

Donald Trump’s military buildup in the Middle East serves as a coercive backdrop to fragile nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

Iran’s latest wave of protests has been shaped by decades of economic suffocation, political foreclosure and ideological exhaustion. Under the combined weight of imperial pressure and authoritarian rule, the promise of sovereignty has collapsed, and nostalgia offers no way out.

From the Assembly of Experts to the Guardian Council, learn about the complex process of electing the Supreme Leader of Iran, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and the highest authority in the country.

The UN HRC approved a fact-finding investigation into human rights violations in Iran. However, the vote reveals three disturbing facts about the Council and its ability to protect human rights.

Exclusive: A two-hour-long audio leak of a secret meeting between a Basij commander and news outlets reveals the regime’s tactics to suppress dissent.

In his national epic, the Book of Kings, Ferdowsi, tells us a story of a kingdom ruled by hungry snakes terrorising a nation. Little did the poet know that 1000 years later, his national epic would become a prophecy.

Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer who has been in and out of prison since 2010 for no other reason than defending men, women and children who suffered under the oppressive Iranian regime. Her clients included opposition politicians, journalists, abused women and children, women who were arrested for not wearing the hijab and prisoners on death row for crimes they allegedly committed when they were minors.