For a fortnight, protesters had taken to the ...

SEVEN TIMES IN EIGHT DAYS, U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD Trump promised to come to the aid of Iranian protesters if the country’s authoritarian regime began killing them in the streets. When it did—slaying th

The protests in Iran, now in their third week, have erupted across every province, spreading to more than 180 towns and cities and “cutting across class, ethnic and regional lines”, says Sanam Vakil i

How did the protests start? They started with the bazaaris – the normally conservative Tehran merchant class who, two generations ago, were the financial backbone of the 1979 Revolution. On 28 Decembe

In January 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled Iran with “his wife, some jewels and a clod of earth”, says author Christopher de Bellaigue in the Financial Times. A measure of how the country’s Isla

Following the deaths of two US citizens, tensions are running high, reports Georgia Aspinall