On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Freedom House has launched a new web feature highlighting the changes in freedom in the former communist world. Freedom Before and After the Wall includes a retrospective essay; charts and …

Yesterday’s protests confirm that Iran’s pro-democracy “Green movement” has not been crushed, but the West risks making a major strategic error by engaging the regime on the nuclear issue while neglecting the forces for change, a leading analyst warns.  …

Today’s Green movement mobilization came a day after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei bluntly rejected US overtures for engagement.

Now that Iran has “rebuffed all entreaties,” President Obama “should understand he got a ‘No’”, said Congressman Mark Kirk, R-Ill., today …

Iran’s Green movement today defied official threats of violent retribution and reaffirmed its capacity to mobilize tens of thousands of protesters. The opposition exploited a government-sponsored anti-American rally on the 30th anniversary of the Tehran Embassy seizure to demand that …