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Amid Two-Week Internet Blackout, Some Iranians Are Getting Back Online

Many in Iran are gaining brief and unexplained windows of online connectivity, offering a widening glimpse of the extent of the government crackdown.

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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Would Have Global Scope but One Man in Charge

The initiative is the latest example of the president dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.

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How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online

Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.

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Iran Backpedals on Executions Threat but Casts Protesters as ‘Terrorists’

Iran’s judiciary said there was no death penalty issued for Erfan Soltani, whose case drew international outcry. Analysts say the government is using fear and intimidation to keep people off the streets.

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Why Israel Is Wary of Intervening in Iran

Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.

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Trump Says Iran Is Stopping Its Killings of Protesters as U.S. Moves Troops

Nonessential personnel were moved from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, an American site that could be a target of Iran if President Trump ordered an attack on the country.

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Trump’s Gulf Allies Do Not Want Him to Bomb Iran

While several of the Gulf Arab countries harbor little love for Iran, they worry that the consequences of rising tensions could blow back on them.

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