Iran’s contribution to the global economy is not centred merely on oil, as the war has shown.
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Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their government they want change.
Angered not just by social crises, Iranians are asking fundamental questions about the costs and sacrifices demanded by the Islamic Republic’s ruling ideology.
On June 28, Iranians will pick a new president. Relations with the West have been a key campaign issue.
Iran’s president and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash – we ask an expert what might happen next.
Ebrahim Raisi was declared the winner of Iran’s June 18 presidential election, which critics called rigged after his top opponents were disqualified.
The US and Iran had been friends for over a century before the British and American coup in 1953 eventually turned them into enemies.
Trump announced ‘hard-hitting’ new sanctions on Iran in response to the attack on a US drone. A peace studies scholar explains why sanctions rarely work.
Recent protests in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar are part of a long reform movement, not a new revolution.
The Iranian government reacted to a nationwide truck drivers’ strike with unprecedented restraint, apparently fearful a crackdown might provoke a Trump intervention.
It largely depends on whether Europe will decide to ignore (and pay the price for) US sanctions.
Although the unrest that shocked Iran’s ruling elite appears to be over, there are several reasons to think this won’t be the last time disaffected citizens take to the streets.
Rouhani’s conservative rivals are exploiting growing pessimism about the economy, increasing the odds that someone more hostile to the West might become Iran’s next president.
Top contributors
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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PhD Candidate in Political Economy, King's College London
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Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, Inaugural Co-Director of Centre for AI Futures, SOAS, University of London
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Professor Emeritus, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Adjunct Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, Penn State
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Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, New York University
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Instructor of American Politics, United States Military Academy West Point
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Executive Co-Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg
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Reader in International Development, University of Westminster