The end of an era

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

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

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

TODAY, THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF Iran resembles a half-lifeless body collapsed on the ground, but holding a gun. With the support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other military forces, it

THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC’S AL-ready lengthy catalog of fears has ballooned of late: alongside the possibility of being overthrown by its own citizens, it is haunted by the prospect of a full accounting of

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