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The Islamic Republic’s Digital Transnational Repression
For the Islamic Republic, controlling political narratives and suppressing opposition have never stopped at Iran’s borders. Since 1979, the state’s security apparatus has abducted, killed, and threatened critics abroad, at times using local...
How Internet Shutdowns are Crushing Iran’s Micro-Economy
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Millions of Iranians excluded from the state-controlled economy rely on Instagram to run their small businesses.
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But frequent government-imposed internet shutdowns have disrupted Iranian businesses’ presence on Inst...
Factnameh Monthly Brief: August 2026
Six months after the war began, Iran remains locked in an unresolved confrontation with the United States. The economic situation has deteriorated sharply amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade and intensified sanctions. The political outlook...
The engine behind the answer: our updated audit of how AI models handle Iran in Persian
Note: the original report can found here.
We learned that for some models we had been measuring a third-party search index rather than the model’s own retrieval. So we rebuilt the study, automated, two-armed, and version-pinned, and ran it...
Factnameh Monthly Brief: July 2026
If you followed events in Iran during July, you were likely confronted with a constant stream of dramatic images and competing claims about the recent military conflict between Iran and the United States, as well as Iran’s domestic politics...
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