A review of Iran's domestic politics over the past few weeks can give us a number of insights on what has been simmering unseen over the past four years, and what Iran has to look forward to in the coming years.

Considering Javad Larijani's inability to build coalitions with other UN member states and in view of his aggressive conduct, expecting him and his team to effect changes in Iran's standing within the UN appears highly unlikely.

Faced with the terrifying prospect of another Tahrir Square, the Iranian regime is choosing from a list of bad options. The next few weeks will be extremely important.

TEHRAN, Iran — Police used tear gas and batons Tuesday to disperse resurgent anti-government protesters demanding the release of opposition lead...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran arrested two leading opposition figures on Monday ahead of a planned nationwide anti-government rally, an opposition website ...

For most Iranians, the Green Movement is what the international media is calling the massive mobilization to dismantle the Islamic Republic of Iran. The hope is that change will finally open the door to serious reform.

TEHRAN, Iran — Thousands of Iranian government supporters called for the execution of opposition leaders at a prayer service Friday in response to a...

Inspired by Egypt's popular revolt which ousted President Hosni Mubarak from power last week, thousands of Iranian pro-democracy advocates took to the...

Young people in Iran cannot be silenced forever. As the children of the revolution they are eager to inherit their country and they are poised to stage their counter-revolution one day soon.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Clashes between Iranian police and hundreds of thousands of protesters wracked central Tehran on Monday as security forces beat and fi...

With much of the population in the country having been raised under the Islamic Republic's counter-hegemonic ideology, subverting authority may become engrained in a manner that does not give the regime and its clerics immunity.

Under this "legitimate" Iranian Government, freedom of speech is severely curtailed. Newspapers are regularly banned, journalists regularly imprisoned.

Iran has launched a final push to crush the opposition movement with a campaign of repression against the remaining organised groups active against th...

The incompatibility between the Iranian reformist leaders' demands for a re-run of the election and the rank-and-file's revolutionary demand to replace this regime have resulted in a schizophrenic identity for the Green movement.

Who is running the show? Is Mousavi really guiding the movement on the streets, or is the street guiding Mousavi?

As the Iranian Green Movement plans for renewed protests marking the anniversary of the election and as the regime continues to censor media and block internet access, Obama should reevaluate his position on sanctions.

Traditional Iranian husbands, the sort found in the highest ranks of the Islamic Republic, sometimes refer to their wives as "the house." For them, th...

TEHRAN -- The opposition supporters nervously smoked cigarettes in the kitchen as loud music blared from the empty living room. A student, a businessm...

what can the leaderless -- yet relentless -- opposition in Iran hope for? Without a leader, there is no revolution. Is there a fighting chance at reform?

Leaders of the Islamic Republic hope to take control of the narrative of the post-election protests that have produced the deepest political crisis in Iran since the early years of the Islamic Republic.

A major Iranian opposition leader slammed his country's regime Wednesday and what he termed its tyrannical behavior after the disputed presidential el...

Mir Hussein Moussavi, the Iranian opposition leader, made some of his harshest remarks against Iran's rulers on Tuesday in an interview published on h...