Governor Hemmati says reserves are ample while the judiciary pursues billions exporters never brought home.

Reza Pahlavi boasts of “bilateral contacts” with IRGC commanders. The Washington lobby promoting him whitewashes those ties, glorifies the Pahlavi dictatorship and attacks the opposition the regime fears most.

The war decapitated the Islamic Republic. What replaced the old order is not one chain of command, but rival blocs circling a Supreme Leader who cannot yet control them.

Khomeini cleared the field for his successor. Ali Khamenei left his son a war, a shrunken social base and factions already turning his own words against each other.

Iran’s new IRGC commander built the Quds Force, ran the ministries of defense and interior, and now faces trial in Argentina for the deadliest terrorist attack in its history.

Chosen in wartime by a clerical body under fire, Iran’s new Supreme Leader embodies the hereditary rule the 1979 revolution claimed to abolish, and owes his position to the Revolutionary Guards.

Defector numbers that keep growing, positions on war that change with the audience, and a past declared off-limits: the exiled prince is asking for trust he has not earned.

From diplomats carrying explosives to drug gangs for hire, the Islamic Republic’s operations abroad have shifted to criminal proxies. The method buys deniability, but not success.

Officials link economic hardship to the risk of collapse "from within" as the Basij stages large mobilizations.