The president openly links failing services to "social protests" and complains of "division-makers" inside the state.

Electricity, water, gas, fuel, banking, the budget and pensions: the president admits crisis across the board and frames the public as the threat.

Hardliners are turning the language of treason on advocates of talks. Kayhan's editor targets Zarif; Jalili says pro-talks figures should "be ashamed."

First Vice President Aref apologized publicly as food prices rose by as much as 293 percent since December.

The new security council chief questions Iran's place in the NPT, drawing on a doctrine that treats any retreat as the start of surrender.

Weeks into the war, footage from the judiciary’s own news agency shows its chief telling officials to expedite executions and property confiscations. The summer’s hangings followed.

At the Supreme Leader’s speeches, in parliament and at Friday prayers, the same slogan returns. What a regime chooses to chant against tells you what it fears.

After an IAEA resolution, a member of parliament said quitting the Non-Proliferation Treaty would cost Iran nothing and that Moscow had signaled it would supply nuclear weapons.

On state television, a cleric in parliament describes the foreign minister’s instructions: criticize the talks and apply pressure, so negotiators can claim their hands are tied.