Iran’s Internet Reconnection, U.S. and Iran Diplomacy Under Fire, Ghalibaf Re-Elected, and More
Week of May 25, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran’s Internet Reconnection Advances Despite Ongoing Technical and Political Challenges Diplomacy Under Fire: Iran and the United States Move Closer to Agreement Amid Continued Confrontations in the Persian Gulf Iran Executes Two Men […]
Pegah Ahangarani’s Cannes Award, Iran’s Civil Society Institutions Pushed to a Breaking Point, and More
Week of May 18, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Pegah Ahangarani’s Cannes Award Highlights Iran’s Struggle for Freedom The Ekbatan Case: Iran Reduces Death Sentences After Years of Controversy and Forensic Disputes Iran’s Neighbors and the Limits of Regional Hostility The Quiet […]
Iran and the Beijing Summit, Iran-UAE Tensions Deepen, Internet Blackout Exposes Fractures, and More
Week of May 11, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran and the Beijing Summit: What the Trump–Xi Meeting Means for the War Iran-UAE Tensions Deepen as War Fallout Reshapes the Persian Gulf Easing Pressure on Sotoudeh, Mohammadi and Madani as Executions Mount […]
How a Night of Fire in the Strait of Hormuz Threatened to Unravel the Iran-U.S. Truce, Pezeshkian’s Meeting with Mojtaba Khamenei, and More
Week of May 4, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council How a Night of Fire in the Strait of Hormuz Threatened to Unravel the Iran-U.S. Truce Pezeshkian’s Meeting with Mojtaba Khamenei: What We Know and What Remains Unanswered Diplomatic Signals, Familiar Dangers: Iran […]
Iran’s Reconstruction and Recovery, the Double Wave Internet Blackout, and More
Week of April 27, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran-U.S. Conflict: Deep Divisions and the Risk of Renewed War Iran’s Hardline Media War: A Public Feud Over Nuclear Negotiations Iran’s Currency, Blockade, and Drug Crisis: The Race to Endure Iran’s Two-Wave Internet […]
Between Deal and War: The U.S.-Iran Standoff Deepens, More Executions as Wartime Crackdown Intensifies, and More
Week of April 20, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Between Deal and War: The U.S.-Iran Standoff Deepens as Both Sides Sustain Competing Pressures Iran Executes Another Alleged MEK Member as Wartime Crackdown Intensifies Execution of Alleged “Mossad Collaborator” Raises Due Process Concerns […]
The Strait of Hormuz Reopens, Predictions of Mid-war Unrest Fall Flat, Iran’s Fragile Recovery After Conflict, and More
Week of April 13, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council How Predictions of Mid-war Unrest and Collapse in Iran Fell Flat Hormuz Opening and Lebanon Ceasefire: Iran’s Strategic Trade-Off and Regional Signaling A War Without Defeat, An Economy Under Siege: Iran’s Fragile Recovery […]
Ceasefire Tested Ahead of Islamabad Talks, Forty Days Since the Minab School Strike, the Strait of Hormuz as Iran’s Strategic Lever, and More
Week of April 6, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran, the United States, and Israel Test the Ceasefire Ahead of Possible Islamabad Talks Forty Days After the Minab School Strike: Mourning, Memory, and the Cost of War on Children Kamal Kharazi Succumbs […]
Escalating Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure and Universities in Iran, Latest Wave of Executions, and More
Week of March 30, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council “Back to the Stone Age”: Systematic Destruction of Iran’s Civilian Infrastructure Amid War Escalation Escalating Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure and Universities in Iran Deepen the Humanitarian Crisis and Raise Serious War Crime Concerns […]
Infrastructure Strikes and Retaliatory Threats; Iran Declines “Unrealistic” Ceasefire Proposal; Iran’s New National Security Secretary, and More
Week of March 23, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Costs Mount in War as Steel Facilities in Iran are Struck Escalating Repression in Iran: Asset Seizures, Coerced Confessions, and Expanding Crackdown on Dissent Iran Rejects U.S. Proposal Amid Military Buildup Iran Appoints […]
Attacks on Regional Energy Infrastructure; Iranian Civil Society Calls to End War; New Executions in Iran; and More
Week of March 16, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Energy De-Escalation, Regional Backlash, and the Opening of a Northern Front Attack on South Pars Signals a Dangerous New Phase in the War with Global Consequences The Sinking of the IRIS Dena: Escalation […]
Iran Projects Defiance and Stability Amid War; The Selection of Mojtaba Khamenei; Iran’s War-time Economy, and More
Week of March 9, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council War Resilience, Qods Day Mobilization, and Strategic Vulnerabilities in the Iran–U.S. Conflict Mojtaba Khamenei’s First Letter Signals Escalation and a Wartime Doctrine for Iran Uncertainty Surrounds Iran’s Participation in the 2026 FIFA World […]