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S. Rouzbeh reflects on the gap between witnessing human suffering and demanding accountability, drawing on the example of apartheid-era South Africa to argue that preserving victims’ names, testimonies and documents is essential to justice—and asking who should create a national archive of victims in Iran.
S. Rouzbeh meets a frail older man at a rally on a cold, rainy evening. Over coffee, the man reflects on a lifetime spent pursuing what he called justice, from his teenage years in politics and revolution to his involvement with left-wing groups.
After their son's death, a mother and father carry on with the smallest rituals of daily life, each one revealing an absence that time cannot heal.
S. Rouzbeh asks whether filming a public event makes someone a witness or a spy, and what the ten-year prison sentence handed to Masoud Piyahoo reveals about power, truth, collective memory and the freedom to circulate information. The article considers the image of a lone man facing security forces and contrasts the case with Darnella Frazier’s recording of George Floyd’s death.
The ‘Ekbatan Kids’ case has raised questions about proof of individual criminal responsibility, the fairness of the judicial process and the government’s insistence on pursuing severe sentences. This article examines the legal uncertainties surrounding the case and asks whether it is being used to make an example of a generation of protesters.
Why does the Islamic Republic fear transparency? If an agreement is to be concluded, why are its details not made clear and public? Is keeping agreements secret part of the Islamic Republic’s strategy for survival?
The Islamic Republic, after years of punishing kolbars, is now turning to kolbari routes to address shortages of petrochemical and polymer raw materials. The article examines what this reversal reveals about the crisis in official trade, the burden placed on impoverished border communities, and the risks of new rent-seeking.
The nuclear dispute is about more than enriched uranium: it reflects decades of mistrust and has exacted a heavy toll on ordinary Iranians. As Tehran uses the nuclear issue and regional threats to buy time, the article asks how long the public can bear the costs of sanctions, insecurity and political survival.
The article examines the legal and financial risks of buying property seized by the Islamic Republic, including challenges to confiscation orders and the difficulty of claiming good faith after public warnings.
The Islamic Republic has decided to take part in the 2026 World Cup, but the tournament may expose the widening divide between the government and many Iranians, particularly those living abroad. As football becomes a contest over symbols and national identity, the question is whether the government can control a stage on which it does not have the upper hand.
The Islamic Republic wages a political and psychological war over language, appropriating words such as “Iran”, “the people”, “security” and “resistance” to control their meaning and turn them against society. Reclaiming these words is part of building an independent political language.
S. Rouzbeh asks whether the threat of war and political manoeuvring have held back Iran’s Lion and Sun Revolution—or deepened the public’s determination to overthrow the Islamic Republic—and argues that lasting change depends on organised hope and the will of the Iranian people.
An analysis of threats over the Strait of Hormuz as a means of engineering fear, and of how pressure shifts towards weaker targets when direct confrontation is constrained.
S. Rouzbeh argues that taking Iran back requires more than the fall of the Islamic Republic: it calls for targeted external pressure, public readiness, fractures in the forces of repression, a clear political alternative, resistance to foreign deals over Iran’s future, and effective communication and messaging.
Workers’ Day is placed in mines, industrial fires and the struggle for bread, life and the right to organise.
Iran faces a dangerous crossroads. The way forward is neither passivity nor reckless action, but preparation, patience, solidarity and intelligent civic engagement that can turn protest into a national, effective movement while minimising the human cost.
Can a lasting agreement be made with a government that has lost its popular support through killings, imprisonment, exile and repression? An agreement that ignores those killed in protests, political prisoners, grieving families and the will of the Iranian people is neither peace nor stability; it merely buys time for a regime whose legitimacy at home has collapsed.
S. Rouzbeh asks whether the Islamic Republic, after nearly half a century of rule through authority, threats and sanctity, can no longer even close the chapter on its leader’s death. Delayed burial, uncertainty over the burial site and the successor’s absence from public view raise questions about succession, decision-making and a regime caught in its own web of lies, hypocrisy and propaganda.