Protests in Iran are intensifying due to the country's struggling economy, putting pressure on its theocracy as it has shut down the internet and telephone networks.

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

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.

For a third night in a row, nationwide antigovernment protests rocked Iran, according to witnesses and videos verified by The New York Times, posted on BBC Persian and social media, even as the government intensified its crackdown and the military said it would take to the streets in response to the unrest.

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

Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world.

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.