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Iran is using every effort to crush protesters intent on a revolution — except hearing them out

Iran has entered the second month of upheaval with an average of one child murder a day by the Basij, part of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), amid the crackdown against the “woman, life, freedom” movement.

The Conversation

Iran is at war with its own people. Fifa won’t let that spoil their World Cup

By supplying military drones to Russia, the mullahs’ regime is killing at home and away. The national team’s presence in Qatar is sickening and shameful

The Guardian - UK

Analysis-Iran's unrest sounds death knell for once vibrant reformists

The protests sweeping Iran have sounded the death knell for a once vibrant reform movement, revealing a big divide with Iranians in the streets demanding an end to theocratic rule.

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Iran protests continue as demonstrators commemorate deadly crackdown in southeast

Protests in Iran raged on streets into Thursday with demonstrators remembering a bloody crackdown in the country's southeast, even as the nation's intelligence minister and army chief renewed threats against local dissent and the broader world.

France 24

Who are the beneficiaries of 'free speech'?

How is it that a man who has banned 83 million people from Twitter can freely use the platform to post his messages denigrating women and supporting the brutal attack on the writer Salman Rushdie? I'm referring to the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose…

Bangkok Post

Iran's army issues warning to 'rioters' as security forces struggle to suppress unrest

Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander said on Wednesday that "rioters" would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Reuters

Iran's army says "rioters" will have no place in country if order given by supreme leader - Mehr

Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander Kiumars Heydari said on Wednesday that "rioters" would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, said the semi-official Mehr news agency.

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Iran marks the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests

The country's theocracy, which came to power 43 years ago, faces one of its stiffest challenges amid weeks of widespread protests after the death of a woman arrested by the country's morality police.

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Iran marks 1979 US Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests

Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police

The Independent UK

Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on

A cleric at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the restive, mostly Sunni Muslim Iranian city of Zahedan has been shot dead, the official news agency IRNA said, threatening a spike in sectarian tensions complicating government efforts to contain widespread unrest.

Reuters

Videos showing Iranian crackdown on protesters go viral as anger grows

Videos on social media showing Iranian security forces severely beating protesters have gone viral as anger grows at a widening crackdown with arrests of prominent figures from rappers to economists and lawyers aimed at ending seven weeks of unrest.

Reuters

Iran's guards chief threatens protesters - 'today is the last day of riots'

Following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police, Iran erupted into protest - one of the boldest challenged to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution

Daily Mirror

Iran security forces fire at protest buildings

Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said Saturday, as a protest movement that flared over Mahsa Amini's death entered a seventh week.

Bangkok Post

Iran's elite technical university emerges as hub of protests

As demonstrations erupt across Iran, the country's elite technical university has emerged as an unexpected hub for protest

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Iran protests - latest: Supreme leader vows to retaliate after pilgrims massacre

Attackers who killed 15 people will be punished, warns Ayatollah

The Independent UK

Iran leaders try to link protests to gun attack killing 15

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people

Reuters

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei calls for unity after shrine attack

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Iranians on Thursday to unite after an attack claimed by Islamic State on a shrine that killed 15 people, saying those behind it "will surely be punished", state television reported.

Reuters

Sunni cleric challenges Iran's leaders as protests rage

A prominent Sunni cleric who directed unprecedented criticism at Iran's supreme leader over a bloody crackdown in his hometown appeared unbowed this week by warnings from security forces, pressing his demands for more rights for his minority and voicing support for other groups in country-wide unrest.

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Islamic State claims Iran shrine attack, Iran vows response

The militant group Islamic State said it carried out an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Iran on Wednesday which killed 15 people, escalating tensions in a country reeling from a wave of protests and prompting warnings of a response from Tehran.

Reuters

Analysis-Iran crackdown may burnish Raisi's credentials for top job

By tightening curbs on women's rights, President Ebrahim Raisi has boosted his hardline credentials and possibly his prospects of becoming Iran's Supreme Leader, even at the cost of provoking mass protests and driving a wedge between many Iranians and the ruling elite, three analysts and a pro-reform official said.

Bangkok Post

In Iran, all options to curb crisis are bad

'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

Reuters

Tens of thousands march in Berlin in support of Iran protests

Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in a show of support for protesters in Iran where unrest ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody entered a sixth week despite a deadly state crackdown.

The Independent UK

Elnaz Rekabi: Iranian climber was forced to issue hijab statement or risk losing family home – report

Rekabi has reportedly been placed under house arrest after returning to Tehran

Bangkok Post

The naked Ayatollah: A detour from Islamic theology

The nationwide protests in Iran over women's rights and abuses by the religious morality police have once again shone a light on the country's ruling clerical class and the seemingly limitless powers of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Los Angeles Times

Dive-bombing drones deployed by Russia in Ukraine cause death — and diplomatic storms

BEIRUT — It streaks across the sky and then — when it’s almost too late to take cover — lets off a guttural sound like a moped blitzing by. Moments later comes the punch-boom of a deadly explosion.

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