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  • Iran's President Pezeshkian, surrounded by members of the parliament, waving and laughing
    Iranian parliament approves cabinet

    Moving forward into the past

    The cabinet of new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian has disappointed those who voted for change. Pezeshkian’s voters had only modest expectations – less oppression of women and easier access to the internet – but in the Islamic Republic, everything remains the same.

  • An Iranian pro-government supporter woman holds an anti-Israel poster on Palestine Street in downtown Tehran on 14 April 2024
    Israel, the USA and the Islamic Republic

    Understanding Iran's "offensive-defensive" strategy

    April 2024 not only saw Iran's unprecedented direct assault on Israel but also a violent crackdown on women in Iran refusing to wear the hijab. So what is behind Tehran's conflicting sense of hubris and insecurity?

  • Headshot of a women (Sedigheh Vasmaghi) wearing glasses and a headscarf
    The Iranian theologian and feminist Sedigheh Vasmaghi

    A revolution in Islamic law

    With her work, Iranian feminist and legal scholar Sedigheh Vasmaghi is putting an end to male dominance in Islamic jurisprudence, striking at the very heart of the Islamic Republic.

  • Young women have been defying the Iranian regime's crackdown
    Iranian protest literature

    Ehtesham-Zadeh and the inner revolution

    "Zan", Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh's short story collection, tells of Iranian women during the uprising in Iran, and of women in exile grappling in diverse ways with their identity and roots. A book about women, life and freedom that has arrived at exactly the right moment

  • A woman holds a pen in her hand as she looks at a ballot paper at a polling station in Iran
    Parliamentary elections in Iran

    Tehran's election fiasco

    Regime and society in Iran remain on a collision course with the actual turnout in the second round of Iran's parliamentary election last week estimated to have fallen below 40 per cent.

  • Election campaign posters in Tehran
    Iran elections

    Why Tehran may announce a fake voter turnout

    Banned from the streets, the protests in Iran continue. This week's elections will reflect just how much – or how little – popular support the Islamic Republic still enjoys

  • Calligraphy from the eighth century that reads "Ali is the vicegerent of God"
    Sunnis and Shias in Islam

    How the Sunni-Shia split shaped the Islamic world throughout history

    Toby Matthiesen's new book, "The Caliph and the Imam", explores both the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, what the two branches of Islam have in common and how the split has shaped the Islamic world

  • President Xi Jinping and PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas (left) in Beijing in June 2023
    War in the Middle East

    What's China's stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict?

    Beijing is seeking to mediate in the war between Israel and Hamas. China has condemned both parties' violence. Despite this, public hostility towards Israel prevails

  • With its surprise attack against Israel, Hamas has violently shifted the world's eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark U.S.-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
    Hamas-Israel conflict

    Hamas violently forces detour from Saudi-Israel momentum

    With its surprise attack against Israel, Hamas has violently shifted the world's eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark U.S.-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia

  • Prominent voices from within the Islamic Republic's inner circle of power – once spokesmen for the most radical factions – are now vehement in their criticism of Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader. They used the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death to drive home their condemnation.
    Iran and Mahsa Amini, one year on

    Tehran's power base is fading

    Prominent voices from within the Islamic Republic's inner circle of power – once spokesmen for the most radical factions – are now vehement in their criticism of Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader. They used the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death to drive home their condemnation. By Ali Sadrzadeh

  • After the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, Iran's universities became the focus of anti-regime protests. Now lecturers critical of the regime are being dismissed, while those loyal to the regime are being rehired: Tehran's Islamic regime is apparently reshaping the country's universities even more strictly according to its own ideas.
    Iran protests

    Tehran dismisses university lecturers

    University lecturers critical of the regime are being dismissed, while those loyal to the regime are being rehired: Tehran's Islamic regime is apparently reshaping the country's universities even more strictly according to its own ideas. By Iman Aslani

  • Iran's deal last spring with Saudi Arabia, brokered by China, highlighted the emergence of an unstable equilibrium in the Islamic Republic's foreign policy.
    Iran-Saudi deal

    The Islamic Republic's dilemma

    Iran's deal last spring with Saudi Arabia, brokered by China, highlighted the emergence of an unstable equilibrium in the Islamic Republic's foreign policy. Amin Naeni and Ali Fathollah-Nejad explore the inherent tensions

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