Within its borders, the Iranian regime controls its population through one of the world’s toughest internet filtering systems, physical crackdowns, and mass arrests carried out with impunity.

said of Sunday’s blackout. “If it’s not a coincidence, and that’s a big if, someone is trying to send a message that ‘we can limit Iran’s advance and we have red lines.’” ...

Iran’s 2011-2013 cyber campaign to disrupt the U.S. banking sector used only simplistic techniques to overwhelm networks with traffic. And, despite its impact, Shamoon was a copycat of ...

While the news of Mahsa Amini's death in police custody in September 2022 sparked protests across Iran, it is not the first time Iranian women and girls have been at the forefront of revolution.

But this time around, 28-year-old Gorjestani – like many other Iranian Americans – hasn’t been in a celebratory mood. This is the first Nowruz, or “new day” in Farsi, since protests ...

Punjab's 27 million inhabitants faced mobile data and SMS blocking as well as traffic filtering on certain websites and services. For example, the government appeared to have blocked access to ...

For more than two years, Iran has made a series of unprecedented nuclear advances while participating in fruitless negotiations with the West. Tehran’s salami-slice approach to breaking out of ...

The Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers have vowed to meet before the end of the holy month of Ramadan to implement a ...

On Thursday, a U.S. contractor was killed — and five U.S. service members and a second U.S. contractor wounded — when a suspected Iranian drone hit a coalition base in Syria, according to U.S ...

A surprise agreement by regional archenemies Saudi Arabia and Iran this month has raised hopes that the Saudi war in Yemen may come to an end, after more than seven years of hostilities that saw ...

The U.S. military carried out several precision airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, reportedly killing eight Iranians, in retaliation for a drone strike Iranian forces conducted earlier in the day on ...

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