EDITORIAL. In Iran, every uprising and ensuing deadly crackdown has further eroded the regime's legitimacy, with it being seen as increasingly hostile to its own people, clinging to privileges that have become ever more intolerable.

Editorial: A brutal regime has failed to safeguard either sovereignty or basic living standards. But Donald Trump’s threats to intervene won’t help civilians

Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s deputy head of International News, Devika Bhat