Special Interview on Sanctions Blocking Medicine, Trump’s Economic “D-Day,” Ghalibaf Defends Negotiations, and More
Week of August 24, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Special Interview: When a Medication Does Not Arrive, Politics Decides a Life Mohsen Namjoo Returns After Nearly 20 Years as Iran Reopens the Door to Its Diaspora Washington Wants to Isolate Iran. Its […]
Trump Openly Declares Economic War, Iran’s Midwar Political Debate, and More
Week of August 17, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Can Trump’s Economic War Deliver What Military Force Couldn’t — or Just Hurt Iranians? Iran’s Midwar Political Debate Defies Simple Labels UAE Trade Warning Adds to Pressure on Iran’s Struggling Industries After Months […]
Land Trade and Gasoline Shortages Amid the U.S. Blockade, Rezai Elevated to Supreme National Security Council, and More
Week of August 10, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran Turns to China and Overland Trade as Maritime Blockade Squeezes Economy Despite Negotiations, Iran Plans to Outlast the United States Iran Faces Worsening Gasoline Crisis Iran Mourns Iraj, the “Champion of Persian […]
Pezeshkian Defends Record, Oman-Iran Deal Close But Not Final, Opposition to Executions, and More
Week of August 3, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Pezeshkian’s Two-Year Report: War Survival, a Reckoning Over January’s Dead, and an Economy Still “Sinking” Iran and Oman Reach Understanding on New Hormuz Corridor, But Say the Strait Isn’t Reopening Jailed Activists and […]
Iranians Denounce War, Continued Strikes on Infrastructure as Escalation Looms, and More
Week of July 20, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council From Hormuz to the Red Sea: How Iran Is Turning the War Into a Battle for Strategic Leverage Iran Accelerates Executions Under New Espionage Law Following the Dey 1404 Uprising Shir-Mohammad Espandar: The […]
Military Exchanges Threaten to Unravel Tentative Truce, Khamenei’s Funeral in Iran and Iraq, and More
Week of July 6, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Tensions Unsettled as Strait of Hormuz Looms Over U.S.-Iran Crisis The Funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: A Demonstration of Mourning, Succession, and the Resilience of the Islamic Republic Renewed U.S.–Iran Military Conflict Raises […]
Iran and Iraq Prepare for Khamenei’s Funeral, Censorship of Ghalibaf’s Television Interview, Escalating Violence in Western Iran, and More
Week of June 29, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran and Iraq Prepare for Unprecedented Funeral Ceremonies for Ayatollah Khamenei: A Political Operation to Manage Succession and Project Power Escalating Violence in Western Iran: Kurdish Armed Clashes, Assassinations, and the Return of […]
Iran’s Banking Sector Under Sustained Cyber Pressure, Strait of Hormuz Tests Iran-U.S. Memorandum, Iran’s Continued Domestic Debate on the Negotiations, and More
Week of June 22, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iran’s Banking Sector Under Sustained Cyber Pressure: Implications of Recent Disruptions After Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz Becomes the Most Serious Test of the Iran-U.S. Memorandum From Resistance to Realism: Iran’s Domestic Debate […]
Iran-U.S. Talks Advance Toward a 60-Day Deal, Nabavian’s Hardline Resistance, Khamenei’s Distant Approval, and More
Week of June 15, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council The Nabavian Affair: Hardline Resistance to the Iran–U.S. Deal Moves Into the Open A Historic Opening: Iran–U.S. Talks Advance Toward a 60-Day Deal Despite Trump’s Threats and Lebanon Tensions Khamenei Approved the Deal, […]
A Possible Deal to End the War, U.S.-Iran and Iran-Israel Military Exchanges, U.S. Treatment of Team Melli, and More
Week of June 8, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council U.S.-Iran Diplomatic Breakthrough Appears Increasingly Likely, Though Not Final Trump Says He Called Off Further Bombing After Night of Renewed Warfare with Diplomatic Breakthrough Possible From an Unclear Helicopter Incident to a Dangerous […]
Fighting Under a Ceasefire, Opposition to Executions Grows Across Iranian Society, the Loss of Marjane Satrapi, and More
Week of June 1, 2026 | Iran Unfiltered is a digest tracking Iranian politics & society by the National Iranian American Council Iranian Teachers’ Organizations Condemn War and Repression as International Labor and Education Groups Raise Alarm Marjane Satrapi, Acclaimed Author of Persepolis and Voice for Freedom, Dies at 56 Fighting Under a Ceasefire: Iran […]
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 […]