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Parisa Hafezi

A man walks past a banner installed along the roadside of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran on April 29, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
April 30, 2026, 7:08 pm
Iran’s economy under palpable stress, but prepared to hold out amid US blockade
Islamic Republic’s stockpiling of imports ahead of war hasn’t yet curbed bank withdrawals or rationed necessities; still, spiraling joblessness may fuel regime’s fear of protests
By Parisa Hafezi and ANGUS MCDOWALL
An Iranian worshipper wears a banner showing portraits of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, bottom, late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top right, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during Friday prayers ceremony at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, on April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 28, 2026, 8:30 pm
IRGC shores up wartime power in Iran, blunting supreme leader’s role
Experts assess it’s the Revolutionary Guards, not Mojtaba Khamenei, who dominate deliberations, as ‘painfully slow’ process yields uncompromising stance
By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Asif Shazhad
Iranians shop at a street market in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2026. (AFP)
April 19, 2026, 8:28 pm
Weary Iranians expect no postwar respite under entrenched regime
Citizens fear that an agreement with the US will embolden the Islamist rulers, further eroding their rights, while the effects of war on the economy, infrastructure linger
By Parisa Hafezi and ANGUS MCDOWALL
Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, dressed in an IRGC uniform, chairs a session in Tehran, Iran, on February 1, 2026. (Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA)/AFP)
March 23, 2026, 8:35 pm
Iran’s hardline parliament speaker Mohammed Qalibaf enters spotlight amid reported US talks
The former Revolutionary Guards commander, Tehran mayor, police chief, presidential candidate and protégé of Ali Khamenei is key node between political, security and clerical elites
By Parisa Hafezi
A banner is displayed at Valiasr Square in central Tehran on March 10, 2026, depicting Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left) watching as his successor the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) hands over an Islamic Republic of Iran flag to his son and new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei (right). (AFP)
March 11, 2026, 2:59 am
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards orchestrated selection of new supreme leader — sources
Senior source in Iran says the IRGC is now running the country after forcing through its choice of Mojtaba Khamenei, who has been silent since he was elevated to leadership post
By Parisa Hafezi and ANGUS MCDOWALL
FILE: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends the annual anti-Israeli Al-Quds, Jerusalem, Day rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 9, 2026, 5:45 am
More hardline than his father, Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment signals defiance and revenge
Successor and son of Iran’s slain supreme leader will expand repression even if war ends, official says, warning of his ‘iron fist’ and predicting world ‘will miss the era of his father’
By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi
File: Then-Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, accompanied by the armed forces commanders, visits an exhibition of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' aerospace achievements, in Iran, November 19, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
March 8, 2026, 3:19 am
Cracks emerge in Iran’s leadership as it reels under a war seen as existential
IRGC seen taking bigger role in strategy amid US-Israeli airstrikes that have killed top commanders; succession process being sped up; frontrunner Mojtaba Khamenei is untested
By Parisa Hafezi and ANGUS MCDOWALL
FILE: Chinese YJ-17 anti-ship hypersonic missiles are seen during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing, September 3, 2025. (GREG BAKER / AFP)
February 24, 2026, 2:41 pm
‘Complete game-changer’: Iran close to buying supersonic anti‑ship missiles from China
Deal for purchase of CM‑302 missiles, with range of 180 miles, is nearing completion, though delivery date and quantity unclear; expert says they are ‘very difficult to intercept’
By Gavin Finch, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish
Iranians walk past a billboard showing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with anti-US rhetoric in Tehran on January 27, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
January 29, 2026, 11:24 pm
Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest, sources say
Plainclothes forces raid homes across country, put detainees in secret lockups, campaign aimed at deterring any return to street protests, activists say
By Parisa Hafezi
In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026. (UGC via AP)
January 21, 2026, 6:47 pm
‘They killed my child’: Bystanders slain during bloody crackdown on Iran protests
Woman says she was separated from daughter amid gunfire, only to find her in morgue days later; man says brother was shot after sheltering teen protesters in his shop
By Parisa Hafezi
Shops are closed during protests in Tehran's centuries-old main bazaar, Iran, January 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 13, 2026, 6:09 am
Iran’s merchants, bankrollers of 1979 revolution, turn against clerics
Trader class frustrated at regime over failing economy, battered by US sanctions and under tight control of IRGC
By Parisa Hafezi
Mourners hold posters of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini during a funeral ceremony of unknown soldiers who were killed in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war whose remains were recently recovered from the battlefields, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 9, 2026, 10:39 am
As unrest in Iran spreads, leaders face legitimacy crisis with no easy way out
US-based human rights group says 34 protesters, 4 security personnel killed, 2,200 arrested; huge Iranian flag taken down, ripped up by protesters in country’s second-largest city
By Parisa Hafezi
Iranian women wave national flags during the unveiling of a statue (unseen) depicting Sasanian king Shapur I capturing Roman emperor Valerian, at Enghelab (Revolution) Square in the capital Tehran, November 7, 2025. (AFP)
November 13, 2025, 12:25 pm
Iran employing ‘calibrated concessions’ as it deepens political crackdown on dissent
While the Islamic Republic relaxes visible restrictions, aiming to portray Iran as welcoming, it is escalating executions and targeting political and minority groups
By Parisa Hafezi
A customer shops in a supermarket at a shopping mall in northern Tehran, Iran, September 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
October 21, 2025, 9:42 pm
Iran risks severe economic downturn, unrest as renewed UN sanctions bite
Tehran’s strategy of self-sufficiency and closer trade with allies China and Russia may not be enough to shield nation of 92 million from imminent economic blow
By Parisa Hafezi
An Iranian flag flutters in front of the Iranian Consulate, where Iranian diplomats meet counterparts from Germany, Britain and France for renewed nuclear talks, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 25, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
September 17, 2025, 11:59 pm
Talks between Iran, European nations on nuclear program said to make little progress
Diplomats express doubts that any agreement will be reached to stave off reimposition of snapback sanctions on Tehran before end-of-month deadline
By John Irish and Parisa Hafezi
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