Iran protests 2026

Britain is isolated in its failure to ban the IRGC – putting national security at risk

There should be little doubt that Iran’s future leaders will reward those who stood with the people against the tyrannical ayatollah and remember those who failed to act

By Kasra Aarabi

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US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (L) delivers a press conference with US businessman Jared Kushner (R) upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the Coalition of the Willing summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris on January 6, 2026 (Getty Images)

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Witkoff and Kushner to lead Iran talks on Friday

By Jacob Jaffa

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A placard branding Iranian dissidents 'Zionist scum' (Photo: Jame Shapiro)

Iran protests 2026

Iranian dissidents branded ‘filthy Zionists’ by Gaza mob in London

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

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UK’s independent reviewer of terror laws urges ‘immediate’ ban on IRGC

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Dead bodies at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre in Iran (Image: Getty)

By Mattie Heaven

Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

3 min read

EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas talks to journalists upon arrival for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on January 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

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EU set to list IRGC as terror group

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US President Donald Trump gestures after holding a signing ceremony for the Board of Peace at World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 22, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland (Getty Images)

Iran protests 2026

Trump claims Iran ‘wants to talk’ as ‘armada’ arrives in Gulf

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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By Miranda Levy

Why are the celebrities I used to love suddenly so anti, well… me?

From Annie Lennox to Roger Waters, it’s hard not to take pro-Palestine activism personally. Thank God for Quentin Tarantino

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January 22, 2026 13:41

By Gio Esfandiary

This is Iran’s October 7 – and the West must act now

The response to the regime’s massacres must be concrete: severe sanctions, asset freezes, the closure of embassies and an end to the indulgent fiction that this is a normal state with which business can continue

2 min read

January 21, 2026 11:54

Image of what is believed to be the bodies of killed protestors at Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Centre, Tehran (Image: X)

Iran will face unprecedented force if it attacks Israel, warns Netanyahu as IDF readies for ‘surprise war’

The Israeli prime minister guaranteed in a Knesset address that Iran ‘will not return to being what it was’ in the wake of mass anti-regime protests

By Akiva van Koningsveld

2 min read

January 20, 2026 13:59

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate in the plenum hall of the Knesset on January 19, 2026 (Flash90)

‘Iran will recognise Israel immediately’ if Islamic Republic falls, exiled crown prince vows

Under Reza Pahlavi, a ‘free Iran’ would ‘pursue the expansion of the Abraham Accords’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

January 19, 2026 13:54

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (Image: Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

Her searing testimony at the Security Council stripped away decades of sanctimony, laying bare a United Nations that condemns Israel obsessively while averting its gaze from mass repression in the Islamic Republic

3 min read

January 19, 2026 11:09

Masih Alinejad, journalist and political dissident, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Iran at the UN headquarters on January 15, 2026 in New York. (Image: Getty)

US sets out four conditions for Iran peace as aircraft carrier en route to Gulf

Washington’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, called on the Islamic Republic to commit to stringent limitations on its nuclear and ballistic programmes

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

January 16, 2026 11:20

Steve Witkoff onstage at the Israeli-American Council's conference in Hollywood, Florida, on January 15, 2025. (YouTube/ErinMolan)

US Treasury Secretary says Iran’s leaders are wiring ‘tens of millions of dollars’ out of the country

Scott Bessent described the situation as ‘the rats fleeing the ship’

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

January 15, 2026 17:39

A protester burns an image of Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy on January 14 in London (Picture: Getty Images)

‘The killing has stopped’: Trump seemingly backs off Iran strikes after regime U-turns on protest executions

Senior US officials reportedly called the president’s comments a diplomatic ‘off-ramp’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

January 15, 2026 14:48

US President Trump takes questions from members of the media during a meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House on January 9, 2026, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

UK advises against ‘non-essential’ travel to Israel amid ‘regional tension’

The Foreign Office also confirmed the temporary closure of its embassy in Tehran as mass protests leave hundreds dead

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

January 15, 2026 10:23

A Boeing 737-800 operated by Israeli airline El Al at Milan Malpensa Airport (Getty Images)

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Iran protests 2026

Britain is isolated in its failure to ban the IRGC – putting national security at risk

Witkoff and Kushner to lead Iran talks on Friday

Iranian dissidents branded ‘filthy Zionists’ by Gaza mob in London

UK’s independent reviewer of terror laws urges ‘immediate’ ban on IRGC

Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

EU set to list IRGC as terror group

Trump claims Iran ‘wants to talk’ as ‘armada’ arrives in Gulf

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