Iranians from all walks of life are no strangers to protests or strikes over political, economic and other grievances.

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

That certainly has been my experience in discussions with Iran experts and Western government officials. But it is clear that ...

Nationwide protests across Iran, driven by economic distress and intensified by internet shutdowns, have seen the banned ...

Demonstrations have included cries in support of the shah, something that could bring a death sentence in the past but now ...

In a serious challenge to Iran’s authoritarian government, angry protests have spread from the markets and universities of ...

RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has interviewed Jack Goldstone, one of the world's leading scholars of revolutions and social change, ...

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred ...

People rallied in the streets of Tehran on Thursday night, witnesses said, marking a new escalation of ongoing protests in Iran after a call by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for a mass ...

Many Iranian opposition activists are hoping the current unrest could be the beginning of the end of the country's hardline ...

Reza Pahlavi was only 16 years old when Iran’s 1979 revolution toppled his father’s forty-year rule. The eldest son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, he was the first in the line to inherit the oil-rich ...

While opposition figures make moves from abroad, an insider-led "Venezuela model" may prevail in the event of a state ...