Iran protests 2026

Iran could plan attacks abroad if US launches strikes, Western officials warn

US and Iranian negotiators are due to meet on Thursday for the latest round of talks aimed at limiting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme and staving off a military clash

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (C) speaks during a bilateral meeting between Switzerland and Iran during a second round of US-Iranian talks in Geneva on February 17, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran protests 2026

Iranian students hold first large anti-regime rallies since crackdown

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

Protesters hold placards and portraits as they demonstrate in front of the United Nations' office ahead of indirect nuclear talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva on February 17, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Second round of US-Iran talks set to begin in Geneva

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

Fresh wave of protests break out in Iran amid international solidarity rallies

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

IRGC-Basij parade in Tehran, Iran, on January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Kasra Aarabi

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

4 min read

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)

Iran

Witkoff and Kushner to lead Iran talks on Friday

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

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

Unlock access to our community and get the latest news straight to your inbox!

All Newsletters

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

Hi recommendation is ‘based on a genuine need’, says Jonathan Hall KC

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

January 30, 2026 13:13

A protester holds up a placard calling for the proscription of the IRGC at a demonstration held in solidarity with Iranians in London on January 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Mattie Heaven

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

The UK must move from statements to strategy. That means proscribing the IRGC, expanding targeted sanctions, closing legal and financial safe havens, and supporting international accountability mechanisms for crimes against humanity

3 min read

January 29, 2026 17:58

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

EU set to list IRGC as terror group

The bloc is preparing to implement stringent new sanctions on Tehran following a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

January 29, 2026 10:26

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)

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

The US has diverted an aircraft carrier to regional waters, with the vessel entering ‘ghost mode’ to avoid targeting satellites

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

January 27, 2026 15:52

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)

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

4 min read

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)

1 2 3

Iran protests 2026

Iran could plan attacks abroad if US launches strikes, Western officials warn

Iranian students hold first large anti-regime rallies since crackdown

Second round of US-Iran talks set to begin in Geneva

Fresh wave of protests break out in Iran amid international solidarity rallies

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

Insights Delivered Daily

Unlock access to our community and get the latest news straight to your inbox!

The Daily

Editor’s Picks

The Israel Briefing

Community Matters

More from Iran protests 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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