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Iranians are rising against the Islamic Republic’s war on their civilisation

From the moment it seized power, the regime sought to overwrite the people’s ancient identity with a rigid, imported ideology to control their collective memory.

By Afshin Payravi

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Protestors raise Iran’s pre-revolutionary flag of the Lion and the Sun in Khorramabad atop an Islamic Republic clerical statue. (Image: X)

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Fear is cracking in Tehran as Trump’s global pressure meets street revolts

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Former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (L) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shake hands during a joint press statement in Caracas, on June 12, 2023. (Image: Getty)

By Leonardo Coutinho

From IRGC to Russia: how Venezuela became a narco-terror hub for the West’s enemies

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Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei (left), during a state television broadcast in June 2025, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima after being seized by US forces in Caracas on January 3 (Getty Images/Truth Social)

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International order must be based in reality

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By Stephen Pollard

The loony left’s moral collapse over Maduro

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British Jews stand in solidarity with Iranian dissidents against Islamic Republic at London rally

By Jamie Shapiro

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Tehran ‘in survival mode’ as Trump threatens ‘hard hit’ over protestor killings

By Jacob Jaffa

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By Jacob Jaffa

Could Khameini be the next Maduro?

With the Venezuelan dictator seized and deposed, and the US escalating its rhetoric against Iran, the Islamic regime’s supreme leader finds himself in the hot seat

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January 5, 2026 10:55

By Stephen Pollard

The BBC’s silence on Iran’s protests is a scandal

The regime’s fall would reshape the world. Yet for Britain’s national broadcaster, the Guardian and their ideological fellow travellers, there is little to see

5 min read

January 2, 2026 14:59

Anti-regime protestors in Iran (Image: X)

US military ‘locked and loaded’ to intervene if Iran harms peaceful protestors, says Trump

The president’s threat came after Iranian-linked militias in Iraq claimed the Islamic Republic’s new arsenal of ballistic missiles could reach as far west as Egypt and as far north as Ukraine

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

January 2, 2026 11:04

US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (off frame) at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

By Jonathan Harounoff

Iran protests are about far more than cost of living – the people want an end to morally bankrupt cruel regime

As Tehran experiences its ‘Tiananmen moment’, world must recognise what’s at stake and how entire region could benefit from an end to tyranny

3 min read

December 30, 2025 16:38

Lone protestor sits cross-legged in front of security personnel on motorcycles in Tehran

Trump offers backing for fresh Iran strikes amid threat of ‘total war’

The president’s warning came amid a spate of mass protests within Iran over the country’s deepening economic crisis

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 30, 2025 11:41

US President Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida (Getty Images)

By Kasra Aarabi

My IRGC sources say fearful Iran are waiting for Bibi’s exit – so Israel should strike now

Rightly or wrongly, Tehran believes Netanyahu poses a unique threat to the regime: that presents a strategic opportunity which must be seized

5 min read

December 22, 2025 17:07

Iranian ballistic missiles depicted on Tehran billboard (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Netanyahu to present Trump with plans for new attack on Iran during Florida visit

The IDF’s chief of staff also hinted at fresh conflict with the Islamic Republic, with Israel said to be concerned about its buildup of ballistic missiles

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 22, 2025 14:01

US President Trump speaks to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport before boarding his plane to Sharm El-Sheikh, on October 13, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel (Getty Images)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

2 min read

December 17, 2025 16:41

Sebastian Gorka (r), National Security Council’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism, and Mike Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. (Image: Hudson Institute)

By Ellie Borhan

Iran’s regime-made ecological disaster and the threat to Europe

A failing state of 90 million people, running out of water and air, will produce mass migration, regional unrest and even more terror

3 min read

December 12, 2025 16:32

The dried-up riverbed of Zayanderud in Isfahan, Iran (Image: Getty)

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Iran

Iranians are rising against the Islamic Republic’s war on their civilisation

Fear is cracking in Tehran as Trump’s global pressure meets street revolts

From IRGC to Russia: how Venezuela became a narco-terror hub for the West’s enemies

International order must be based in reality

The loony left’s moral collapse over Maduro

British Jews stand in solidarity with Iranian dissidents against Islamic Republic at London rally

Tehran ‘in survival mode’ as Trump threatens ‘hard hit’ over protestor killings

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