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Pahlavi to 'Post' ahead of Freedom Prize: 'Europe's leaders understand Iran's regime must go'

Ahead of accepting the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s Freedom Prize, Reza Pahlavi tells the ‘Post’ that European leaders increasingly recognize the need to end the Islamic Republic.

CROWN PRINCE Reza Pahlavi has been entrusted with accepting the 2026 Freedom Prize on behalf of the Iranian people, in recognition of its struggle against the Islamic Republic. The award, he told ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ is an opportunity to bring international attention to the people’s sacrifices.
 An Iranian missile is displayed during a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022.

US sanctions three for aiding Iran's air defenses amid reports of Moscow-Tehran arms deal

MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 25: Protesters from the Iranian diaspora hold signs and wear Iranian flags as they gather at Puerta del Sol supporting Reza Pahlavi, former Crown Prince of Iran on April 25, 2026 in Madrid, Spain.

Why is the Islamic Republic banning the Lion and Sun emblem amid anti-regime protests? - analysis

A satellite image shows Qeshm Island following suspected oil spills at sea, off the coast of Iran, August 10, 2026.

IRGC intercepts, averts 'hostile fighter jet' over Qeshm Island, according to local reports


How Iran’s Khomeinist Left reinvented itself as the ‘Reformist’ hard core of power - opinion

Post-1979, the Khomeinist Left emerged as a violent, ideologically rigid force blending religious zealotry with leftist ideology. They were the direct executors of state repression.

A woman walks past a mural depicting Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran in August.

At the UN, gifts are never just gifts - they are influence - opinion

Jonathan Harounoff, the former spokesman for Israel’s mission to the UN, takes readers behind the scenes at the global forum 

Silk portraits of every UN secretary-general. A collection donated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1997.
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'The Islamic Republic is already dead': A journalist's view from Iran - interview

Iran’s regime still holds power, but journalist Negar Mojtahedi says its grip on the Iranian people is already breaking

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on September 20, 2022.
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Hezbollah’s use of cluster munitions against Israel may be war crime, HRW says in rare condemnation

“Not only are [cluster munitions] inherently indiscriminate, but unexploded submunitions can kill and injure civilians long after hostilities conclude.”

Iranian ballistic cluster munitions are fired towards Tel Aviv on March 27, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Iranian-American Jew Kamran Hekmati released from Tehran's Evin Prison, must stay in Iran - report

Iranian authorities have not issued an official statement confirming his release or detailing the conditions under which he was freed.

Kemran Hekmati, pictured in a family photo. Iran charged the 70-year-old Jewish Iranian-American for traveling to Israel.

Iran's response to US attacks will be 'faster, heavier, more painful,' Ghalibaf says

"From now on, any attack against Iran’s interests and security will receive a faster, heavier, and more painful response,” Ghalibaf said in a speech published on his Telegram channel.

A cleric walks near a residential building damaged by a strike on March 4, in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2026.

Son of Iran's former vice president received over $2 million in Canadian gov't contracts - report

The report cited the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which claimed that the man “admitted to active participation in procurement activities that benefited the Iranian military."

A Canadian flag is displayed on June 12, 2026 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Fighting two cancers: Amir Heshmatpour’s battle against brain tumors and Iran’s regime - interview

A Persian entrepreneur with a Jewish wife, a breakthrough brain-cancer drug, and a mission against Tehran. NeOnc's Amir Heshmatpour, in his own words.

'Iran is a cancer': Iranian-born CEO takes on the regime

Car hits pro-government gathering in Mashhad, Iran, killing at least four, injuring at least 10

"The driver of the car is a man of about 35 years old and has a conditional license, with medical restrictions," said an unnamed traffic official in a Mizan report.

A picture shows traffic in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023

Iranians protesting unfair employment, economy brutalized by security forces, rights group says

The Human Rights Activists’ News Agency reported that young protesters began demonstrating over allegations of unethical hiring practices at the Lishtar refinery project.

FILE PHOTO: People walk on the beach, with vessels in the Strait of Hormuz visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 22, 2026.