Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022 set off something that could not be put back in its box. Woman, Life, Freedom challenged the foundations of the Islamic Republic. This interactive project retraces the uprising, what was lost, but also what survived and what changed.
An Iran International investigation into five US-wanted hackers linked to the IRGC and Intelligence Ministry found they combined state-directed espionage with selling stolen data, extortion and attacks on Iranian citizens and companies for profit.
A Turkish-Iranian man arrested in Montenegro at the request of the United States spent years working as an asset of Iran's Intelligence Ministry after rising to become one of the country's most accomplished hackers, an Iran International investigation has found.
Iran International has launched a new phase of its campaign documenting the January massacre, focusing on Gharazi Hospital in Isfahan, where documents and witness accounts show the facility became a destination for many of those killed or wounded during the January 8-10 protests.
Across mountains, deserts and valleys, the Islamic Republic built a hidden missile network meant to project power from Israel to the Persian Gulf. Iran International maps the bases, tunnels, shafts and missile lineage behind Tehran’s arsenal, and how two wars exposed its limits.
Days before nationwide protest calls for January 8 and 9, Nourabad Mamasani was already under fire. Accounts received by Iran International describe live ammunition, snipers and heavy weapons used in a crackdown that culminated outside the town courthouse.
Witnesses in Rasht say protesters were driven into narrow market passages, trapped as fire spread and fired upon by security forces during January’s unrest, according to accounts gathered by Iran International.
Alghadir hospital was already one of the clearest windows into Iran’s January massacre. Now, after a public campaign by Iran International, families and witnesses have come forward with more names tied to the same corridors, storage rooms and rear courtyard.
Alghadir hospital in east Tehran is one of the places where the January massacre could be seen in full: a five-body morgue overflowing, blood on the floors, and families searching through blankets and body covers for the people they loved.
Iran’s water crisis did not begin with a “water mafia,” but with a state model built on self-sufficiency, laws that gave the government broad control over water, subsidized water, and mega-projects that turned scarcity into a map of conflict.
What follows is a list of fifty-two senior military, intelligence and security officials of the Islamic Republic who have been killed in recent years—mostly in Israeli operations and in some cases with US involvement.
Israel’s campaign in Iran has reached far beyond missile depots and military command. Over roughly a month, it has also hit the architecture of domestic repression: intelligence compounds, police stations, Basij bases, judicial buildings, and senior officials tied to crackdowns.
Iran’s security and military forces moved personnel, weapons and equipment into at least 70 civilian sites during the US-Israeli airstrikes, an Iran International investigation found, exposing what appears to be a nationwide pattern of using public spaces for military purposes.
Jihad Nasr spent decades at the center of Islamic Republic projects spanning water, housing and energy, as well as nuclear-linked construction and overseas ventures, as a state-backed network built under reformist-era politics dug deep into Iran’s infrastructure economy.
As Iran’s security forces crushed protests, a parallel operation unfolded online, blaming a domestic uprising on a global conspiracy.
A covert unit of cyber agents is at the forefront of Iranian efforts to surveil perceived enemies and was behind failed bids to kill Israelis in Turkey, leaked documents obtained by Iran International and an informed source revealed.
Records compiled by Iran International show that since the ceasefire with Israel in late June, at least 50 explosions and fires have struck 19 provinces, raising questions over their cause.
Once bitter enemies, Shi’ite Islamic Republic of Iran and Sunni Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are now cooperating against a shared foe, stepping up intelligence coordination to counter Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni militant group active along the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iran border.
Nearly three years after the 2022 killing of Mahsa Jina Amini ignited the largest protests in Iran’s modern history, women’s civil resistance has evolved into a sustained movement quietly but irrevocably transforming society, an investigation by Iran International shows.
Taliban fighters are systematically using sexual violence, including rape, against captive women in Afghanistan to punish them for their societal roles and intimidate women into submission, according to accounts shared with Afghanistan International.
Two years after Iran's 2022 protests, escaped dissidents tell Iran International about bureaucratic hurdles and asylum denials.
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Taliban-run Afghanistan - two pariah powers squeezed by the United States and weary from confronting it – have made unlikely common cause.