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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicIran protests

Topic: Iran protests

Indian students keep getting stuck in war. Families send kids anywhere for Dr title

I hope the Indian students in Iran make it back home safe. They have suffered enough, at home and abroad. But a culture that can only accept two professions in 2026 will learn nothing from this. See you at the next evacuation.

For Iran’s exiled Prince to be in focus of unrest shows just how desperate the nation is for change

‘There are others who don’t support him but mostly we’ve reached one understanding in Iran: now is not the time to argue about this issue.’

Iran’s Supreme Leader concedes thousands killed in unrest, some of them ‘brutally & inhumanely’

Washington: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday said “several thousand people” died in this month’s anti-government demonstrations, his first acknowledgment of the...

Iran now looks closer to rupture than reform. Foreign powers will try to seize opportunity

In power for 36 years, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has governed through a rigid adherence to a theological ideology and an absolute rejection of political reform.

Iran protests — why India cannot be a mute spectator

New Delhi should realise that an unstable Iran, or a pro-American regime in Tehran, is not in India’s interest.

New Delhi to evacuate Indian nationals from Iran amid escalating protests

This comes a day after MEA advised Indian nationals to leave Iran by any available means of transport as the situation in the West Asian country continued to spiral.

Pakistanis slam Malala Yousafzai for supporting Iran protesters—‘Western pawn’, ‘fraud’

A person on X said that the Nobel laureate’s silence on Gaza had ‘exposed her’ and that she should now party with her ‘bestie’, Hillary Clinton.

Chinese commentary on Iran protests — serious but not regime-threatening

The views of analysts reflect a wider Chinese tendency to emphasise regime resilience and caution against overstating the impact of what they are calling as ‘street mobilisation’.

Dozens feared dead, thousands arrested as Iran hit by largest protests in years

Protests began on 28 Dec when traders in Tehran protested a currency crisis and worsening living conditions. The demonstrations have since spread nationwide.

Iran warns protesters of death penalty as unrest widens, crackdown grows

The death toll since the unrest began has risen to 42, according to the US-based Human Rights News Agency. BBC said it had independently confirmed at least 21 of the fatalities.

On Camera

India-Pakistan ready for lehenga diplomacy. Maryam Sharif has made the first move

Sometimes, we end up embroidering the truth as we overthink and overanalyse a fastidious lady’s personal wardrobe preferences for significant occasions.

Most EU firms eye India expansion post-trade deal, 90% say profitability to go up—FEBI survey

FEBI survey reveals Europe’s big bet on manufacturing, innovation hub amid ‘mother of all trade deals’, but flags regulatory concerns.

India, EU sign security & defence pact. How it links Indian firms to ‘ReArm Europe’ network 

The agreement comes despite differences between India and the EU on issues such as Russia-Ukraine war, showcasing the intent to deepen strategic ties. 

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.