Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests

From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a ...
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Is Iran headed towards a Persian Spring?

Former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray draws striking parallels between the current 2026 protests in Iran and the 2011 ...
The Atlantic

Iran Deletes Syria From Arab Spring, China Tackles Bachelor Menace

Behind the scenes of the Arab Spring, Shiite-led Iran and Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia have been jockeying for influence in the region--a fact on display in the Iranian state media's coverage of the ...
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Tunisia's Ben Ali, Autocrat Who Inspired Arab Spring Revolts, Dies in Exile

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s former autocratic president whose extravagant life and oppressive rule inspired the first Arab Spring revolts of 2011, died on Thursday in exile in Saudi Arabia, the ...