Protesters were heartened when Trump promised help was ‘on its way.’ Now, they feel betrayed by his lack of action.

South Africa’s government is facing backlash from the US and from within its own administration for hosting Iran’s navy.

The regime may have been able to crush the latest wave of protests using its tried-and-tested playbook of repression. But the fundamental grievances animating protesters haven’t gone away.

"When an American president makes promises to people in the streets and abandons them, they remember, and so do people in the next country, facing the next dictator," writes Bobby Ghosh

T HE LAST time Iran was convulsed by nationwide protests, in 2022, the Arab world was transfixed. The Islamic Republic had spent decades building a network of powerful allies that came to dominate the region. Many Arabs wondered if the prospect of regime change in Tehran offered a chance to throw off Iran’s yoke in their own countries.

Nationwide protests in Iran are putting new pressure on its theocracy as the country faces an economic crisis.

Trump’s renewed warnings have added a volatile international dimension to the unrest. His comments came just days after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolas Maduro, following a months-long pressure campaign—an episode closely watched in Tehran.

Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

Trump has repeatedly said Iran halted the execution of 800 people detained in the protests, without elaborating on the source of the claim. On Friday, Iran’s top prosecutor Mohammad Movahedi strongly denied that in comments carried by the judiciary’s Mizan news agency.

Treasury sanctions target Iran's shadow banking as Mojtaba Khamenei allegedly transferred $328 million overseas according to Treasury Department reports.