Rather, it might just be the end of the Islamic Republic. But the Iranian opposition could still blow it.Although Iranians have demonstrated in huge numbers again and again—in 2009–10, 2017–18, 2019–20,

Trump's new 25% tariff for those doing business with the Islamic Republic comes as the United States weighs further action to intervene in the protests.

Director Jafar Panahi pleads for international help on Iran, warning that "a massacre is coming" from the Islamic Republic.

Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow.

Iranian hospitals are reportedly overwhelmed as anti-government protests rage, with doctors treating gunshot wounds to heads and eyes amid nationwide unrest.

The second sign is of fractures at the top. When ministers and other officials – especially younger ones – begin to quietly disappear from the capital, flee the country and begin to harness themselves to the opposition. Could a velvet revolution usher in democracy?

T HE LAST time Iran was convulsed by nationwide protests, in 2022, the Arab world was transfixed. The Islamic Republic had spent decades building a network of powerful allies that came to dominate the region. Many Arabs wondered if the prospect of regime change in Tehran offered a chance to throw off Iran’s yoke in their own countries.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign ministry account is reportedly among those affected, as the Shia-majority country’s old national flag from the era of monarchy has made a comeback to social medi

Comment: The public now demands regime change, financial resources are gone and support outside the country has collapsed, writes Mojtaba Dehghani

The Islamic Republic cannot survive the death of Khamenei, the growing power of the IRGC, or the loss of popular legitimacy.