From Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to imprisoned activists, Iran's potential successors remain unclear. Opposition figures debate who could unify after regime change.

Among the dead are eight children and at least two members of Iran’s security forces, according to rights groups. Thousands more have been detained as authorities move to suppress demonstrations that show little sign of fading.

Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

The movement has survived all sorts of political stress tests, but there’s one schism that could actually pose a problem. Something else that Von told Khanna stuck with me, though: that the image of the U.S. rushing to back up Israel was against the ...

Angered not just by social crises, Iranians are asking fundamental questions about the costs and sacrifices demanded by the Islamic Republic’s ruling ideology.

President Trump ordered air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, an act viewed by some as a constitutional overreach. The strikes have sparked debate about presidential war powers and the War Powers Act of 1973. Public opinion polls showed low support ...

That certainly has been my experience in discussions with Iran experts and Western government officials. But it is clear that the West needs to engage in serious policy planning to provide support to the Iranian people if such a dramatic change occurs.

For decades, Iranians have confronted one of the world’s most entrenched authoritarian systems with little more than resilience and collective resolve. Iran’s future cannot be negotiated without the Iranian people at its centre.