Maddie Ali
ARTICLES BY: Maddie Ali
Iran Is Recruiting Child Soldiers as Young as 12
IRAN — Iranian state television has launched a campaign to prepare young people for a possible war, with programs under the banner of "Janfada" (those who...
Iran’s Economy Is Collapsing. Why Hasn’t It Triggered Another Mass Uprising?
IRAN — US President Donald Trump's renewed economic campaign against Iran is tightening an already severe squeeze on ordinary households. Expanded secondary sanctions and a...
Who Are the Houthis, and Why Does Iran Support Them?
IRAN — Yemen's Houthis have escalated attacks on cities and energy infrastructure in neighboring Saudi Arabia over the past week while seizing territory along the...
Iran’s Rial in Free Fall: How US Sanctions Are Reshaping Daily Life, Public Opinion for the Iranian People
IRAN — As the Trump administration continues to tighten the economic noose around Iran with US sanctions and a naval blockade, ordinary Iranians are bearing...
How Iran Extended Its Ideological Influence Into Pakistan and Kashmir
IRAN — Across the Middle East, the regional network of terrorist proxies that Iran spent decades building is now facing unprecedented strain. Israel has tied...
The Secret Life of a Woman Journalist in Iran
IRAN — I am at a corner table, coffee cooling in my hands, when two men walk in wearing black. In Iran, you learn to...
Iranian Authorities Exploit ‘Wartime Conditions’ to Accelerate Executions
As American aircraft struck military and infrastructure targets across southern Iran in July, another campaign of repression was accelerating in the country’s prisons. Iranian authorities...
The Funeral the Cameras Missed: How Iranians Really Marked Khamenei’s Death
IRAN — The world watched Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral from above. Aerial shots of packed Tehran streets, interviews with weeping loyalists, breathless dispatches from Western...
Iranians, Angry and Exhausted, Face Deep Uncertainty in Wake of Trump’s Deal With Regime
IRAN – The Iranian people have been living through an exhausting cycle of hope, despair, negotiations, threats, partial agreements, and a never-ending wave of repression...
Inside Iran’s Hidden Divisions: Reality vs. Staged Unity
Editor's note: The Algemeiner recently made contact with a former schoolteacher and aspiring journalist in Iran who, moving forward as a freelancer, will provide rare,...
A View From Inside Iran: Silencing a Generation — Voices Lost to the Gallows
“Don’t tell Mom.” It is a sentence that has echoed through Iran’s prisons for decades. A sentence carried through monitored phone lines in the final minutes...
‘The Girl in the Red Jacket’: A Testimony From Inside Iran
I am Maddie, a millennial woman from Iran and an eyewitness to a bitter reality impossible to unsee. I woke up on the morning of January...
