CATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM

Iran’s rulers speak of faith and resistance, but the regime’s true strength lies in control, profit and instability.

Mojtaba Khamenei’s succession may be symbolic as the IRGC quietly consolidates real power in Iran.

When we normalize systems in which women can be disappeared, we are not showing cultural sensitivity. We are rehearsing our own surrender.

Tell people to shrink, and they will: disappearing from certain streets, days, and conversations

Classifying “intifada” under hate speech is not a leap into censorship; it is the dull business of naming a thing for what it is in this country, at this moment.

Lawful protest is a jewel in the crown of British liberty, but a protest is not a permit to menace.

It was not a plan; it was punctuation. It did not change the sentence; it changed the emphasis. And emphasis, in our age of clip and caption, is not nothing.

I did not see the shah fall, but I did see Yemen crumble. I watched as the same slow rot settled in. It began quietly, almost imperceptibly. Sermons grew sharper, more radical, but went unchallenged.

We live in a time when Parliament in the UK can debate Israel 10 times more than Sudan, where half a million children have starved to death.

They do not need to storm our gates; they believe we will fling them open ourselves. And I fear they are not wrong.