Economic measures must be paired with persistently removing the regime's ability to rebuild its war machine.

For the remaining time of Trump's presidency, the regime plans to play a familiar game of opening and closing the waterway, dangling intermittent negotiations, employing intermediaries, walking up to the table and then walking away.

For someone like Trump, who plays a long game in order to better prepare for what he ultimately intends to achieve, this is dangerous.

Survivors reveal the true scale of the atrocities.

Iran's pattern is clear: escalate, absorb strikes, then call for talks by mediators from Qatar, Oman, Pakistan, or other Muslim Brotherhood allies that are trying to buy Iran time.

After almost half a century, it must now be clear to all that the Khomeinist regime is incapable of reforming itself unless it is for the worse.

Against enemies of this kind, deterrence cannot be relied upon. Only prevention and the denial of capabilities can provide real security.

According to the report, Israeli intelligence viewed the growing rift as an opportunity and began making contact with Ahmadinejad through a series of overseas meetings.

The snag in Iran is that those who wish to make a deal dare not do so because they lack a popular street base within the Khomeinist movement.

One video showed supporters opposed to talks with Washington surrounding Pezeshkian while chanting "death to the compromiser."

Araghchi held separate meetings with representatives of Hezbollah, Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Houthis.

Following the conflict, prices for many fertilizer products have increased six- to seven-fold, creating additional pressure on Iran’s already weak agricultural sector.

Trump's experience of making peace in Gaza should also serve as a warning about Iran's willingness to comply with his peace demands.

In March, Khamenei instructed that 'the lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must certainly continue to be used.'

Baghaei stressed that the Islamic Republic views Israeli attacks on its Hezbollah terrorist proxy in Lebanon as a violation of the agreement.

The digital blackout had immediate economic consequences for many Iranians whose livelihoods depended on online work and international clients.

IRGC members are trained to see the world through the lens of resistance, martyrdom, anti-Americanism, antisemitism, and blind loyalty to the supreme leader.

Iran has restarted limited manufacturing of ballistic missiles, launch platforms, and anti-aircraft systems.

Do not listen to the liberal media outlets that are telling you to stop, de-escalate, or accept 20-year fake 'moratoriums' or other idiotic half-measures.

In just a few weeks, the Israeli Air Force reduced the head of the terror axis to rubble—eliminating Iranian leaders, destroying their weapons systems, and crushing their nuclear ambitions.

The recent sequence of carefully publicized meetings increasingly appears to be designed to communicate a single message: Mojtaba Khamenei is alive.

Iran issues written statements in the name of Mojtaba, without images or recordings.

The Islamic Republic survives by turning loyalty into a business model.

The fear now is that the Trump Administration is appearing to back away from its original demand of total regime change in Iran.

Biological weapons are being developed to cause blisters and attack the nervous system, lungs and the circulatory system.

Critics often frame Iranian politics as a struggle between moderates and hardliners, but this distinction has repeatedly proven disastrously misleading.

Rayan Amiri, an Iranian opposition leader, fled to Turkey after filming violent crackdowns on anti-regime protests and now advocates replacing Islamist rule with secular nationalism.

While Iran projects a united front, a dangerous power struggle is brewing beneath the surface, with the IRGC increasingly calling the shots as Khamenei remains sidelined.

Unnamed sources said Ghalibaf was forced to resign after being reprimanded for seeking to include the nuclear issue in the talks. 

During Yom Hazikaron ceremonies, Prime Minister Netanyahu framed Israel's campaign against Iran as preventing another Holocaust, warning that Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz would have joined Auschwitz and Treblinka among history's darkest names.

For the Iranian regime and its proxies, survival equals victory. If they are not destroyed, if they retain their weapons, if they remain in power, they can claim success.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke of a 'decisive military victory.'

Not only is the Iranian regime scrambling to rebuild the military capabilities it lost in Israeli-American airstrikes, but it is also cracking down hard on anyone who dares oppose its rule.

Iran executed at least 1,639 people in 2025, a 68 percent leap from the 975 killed in 2024 and the highest seen since tracking began in 2008.

A woman holding a sign protesting the war in Iran was blasted by an Iranian in exile who called her out for supporting a terrorist regime and not knowing the realities on the ground.

The posters carry a Persian-language message directed at Iranians accused of cooperating with foreign enemies.

According to HRANA’s Statistics and Documentation Center, 78,907 people were arrested on ideological or political grounds from March 2025 to March 2026, highlighting a pervasive climate of repression across the country.

The statement was read out by a newscaster, but there has been no sign of life from Mojtaba Khamenei.

Mojtaba’s father, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was killed in one of the first strikes launched against Iran more than a week ago.

The question is whether the regime remains strong enough to quash an attempted uprising as it did in January, when it killed approximately 30,000 protesters.