Bread, blackouts and the coming reckoning in Iran
By Ivan Sascha Sheehan and Ramesh Sepehrrad, Published in Baltimore Sun, June 2, 2026 Authoritarian regimes often assume they can survive crisis by controlling information. The Islamic Republic of Iran has relied on that logic: censoring the internet, criminalizing dissent, intimidating families of political prisoners, silencing journalists and
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