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Now that Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, will another face replace his and carry on a version of the same story?

Iranians are rising against censorship and digital inequality, demanding accountability from the Islamic Republic’s regime.

How isolation, intransigence and desperate economic hardship provoked an upsurge of protest that brought the regime to the brink.

It’s hard enough to determine the facts of sexual violence during war; it’s even harder when avenging sexual violence has become a pretext for continuing the war.

Antiquities remain, with the possible exception of wildlife, the only illicit commodity that transnational criminal gangs can trade on the open market. You can’t buy or sell people, drugs or weapons on eBay or at international auction houses.

When Americans look back and take stock of their most impressive first ladies, they rarely think of Rosalynn Carter.

What are Iranians willing to suffer in order to see their demands for fundamental change realized? … For now, the regional and wider reverberations of Iranian girls’ revolt could not be more seismic.

For women who lived through the 1979 Islamic revolution, today’s feminist rebellion against the political order evokes memories.

Azadeh Moaveni talks to Thomas Jones about the demonstrations in Iran following the killing of Mahsa Amini in September.