Iran International
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin is the Head of Digital at Iran International. Before joining Iran International, he spent eight years at Reuters, covering Iran’s nuclear negotiations and sanctions. His investigations earned him the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence in 2023. His book Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran, will be published in June by Doubleday (US) and Viking (UK).
The burning of the Islamic Republic’s national flag at three Iranian universities on Monday marks a new high in the widening rift between the state and the people.
About a month ago, US President Donald Trump urged Iranians to keep protesting and take over institutions, saying that “help is on the way.”
Within a week of the outbreak of protests in Iran against the Islamic Republic and its rulers, US President Donald Trump weighed in twice with direct comments.
Mohammad Javad Zarif’s latest Foreign Affairs article follows a familiar pattern in his narrative: recasting Tehran’s militarization and domestic repression as reactive responses to external pressure rather than deliberate internal choices.
Iran hemorrhages the value of about four out of every five barrels of oil it manages to export, a former senior US Treasury official told Iran International, as sanctions forced funds to be lost in corrupt smuggling networks.
Ten days of Israeli attacks and a heavy US bombardment, has dealt the Islamic Republic its greatest challenge in its nearly 50-year history. Washington and Tel Aviv openly hint at assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
