The New Arab Staff

A correspondent in Iran

A correspondent in Iran

The author is withholding their name to protect their identity

"We have to be careful this grief doesn't knock us down. Otherwise, it won't be the regime that falls apart; it'll be us."

30 January, 2026

Protesters who took to the streets in Iran say the media is wrongly portraying monarchists as leading the uprising.

19 January, 2026

Some Iranians who had hoped for outside help are angry, while others who oppose the regime feel relieved that the US will not destroy their country.

16 January, 2026

As anti-regime protests emerged across Iran, Iranian economists warn that killing protestors will not solve the country's brewing economic crisis.

12 January, 2026

A strike in Tehran Bazaar, which began in response to the Iranian rial devaluation, has spread to other cities, leading to confrontations.

02 January, 2026

Today, arrests on vague national-security charges and prisoner-swap negotiations seems to have become an important pillar of Iran's diplomacy.

10 December, 2025

The head of the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights organisation claimed to TNA that officials, on average, hanged a person every three hours in October.

19 November, 2025

Tehran rallies nationalist sentiment as tensions escalate over disputed Gulf islands, and Europe accuses Tehran of “occupation.”

28 October, 2025

Despite President Masoud Pezeshkian’s positive remarks at the UN, many in Tehran see the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal as a threat backed by the US and Israel.

03 October, 2025

Two months later, statements from political and security figures, and remarks from families of the dead, revealed the scale of Israel's penetration inside Iran.

26 August, 2025