Davidson College Political Science Professor Silvana Toska analyzes the unprecedented unrest in Iran and the regime’s efforts to suppress dissent through extreme violence. The conversation explores how economic collapse,

The eyes of the world are currently on Iran, where tens of thousands of people are demanding an end to the mullah regime. We’re shedding light on the story of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

The force was in the spotlight on Thursday as the European Union moved to declare it a terrorist organization over its part in the bloody crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran earlier this month.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, is "more ready than ever, finger on the trigger," its commander said Saturday, as U.S. warships headed toward the Middle East.

Iranian nationalism is fueling protests against the current autocracy, and Donald Trump on their side, there is reason for hope amid the unrest.

It appears that the Revolutionary Guards are responsible for the large number of demonstrators—whether hundreds or thousands—who have been killed. Iran has held funerals for more than one hundred Revolutionary Guards members and other security personnel who have died in clashes with protesters.

The Trump administration has targets but no endgame.

Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis.

Christianity will fix the ills that Iran has suffered under the ayatollahs for nearly half a century. Iran will be transformed and thrive. Iran will become a cornerstone of peace, not the epicenter of Islamic terror. It’s not that I know this only from my experiences and intuition, knowing my people. God also says so Himself.

Strangled, snatched from hospital beds and tortured: Horrific new claims expose Iran’s deadly protest crackdown - Reports reaching Independent Persian describe systemic abuse and the covert transfer of bodies to morgues as a UN rapporteur warns the total death toll could reach 20,