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Iran’s internet blackout still a reality for 60 per cent of population

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: As state media hails the ‘return of the internet’, Amirhossein Miresmaeili hears from users within Iran who say they only have limited access

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Iran’s young protesters are living in hiding for fear of execution: ‘Even my mother doesn’t know where I am’

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Amirhossein Miresmaeili speaks to protestors on the run from the regime as arrests and executions surge, and finds protestors still riddled with bullets but too scared to go to hospital

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Connection at a cost: The high-risk world of Iran’s underground VPN market after internet blackout

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Users are risking it all to get online as operators gain the ability to monitor activity during the nationwide internet shutdown, writes Alireza Manafi

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Arrests, beatings and an atmosphere of fear: Iranians on life under wartime ‘martial law’

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Reports from within Iran point to an increase in checkpoints and surveillance, with claims of phones seized and social media monitored, writes Amirhossein Miresmaeili

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Teachers, athletes and students arrested in new Iran crackdown during US-Israel war

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Amirhossein Miresmaeili reports on an increase in security-related arrests in Iran during its conflict with the US and Israel

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Iranians tell the world: The war must continue until the Ayatollah’s regime collapses

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Amirhossein Miresmaeili hears from people in Tehran enduring internet blackouts and military strikes from fighter jets, as they say their greatest fear is the regime surviving the conflict

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Tehran police station at heart of Iranian repression destroyed in US-Israel bombing

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: What collapsed in Punak on Monday evening was not only the walls of a police station, but one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic’s urban repression apparatus, reports Amirhossein Miresmaeili

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Inside Iran’s rocketing prices: ‘Food is available – we just can’t afford it’

IN FOCUS: Iranians are discarding shopping trolleys – instead only buying a few goods at a time at the supermarket as the ongoing conflict prompts a sharp drop in purchasing power. Independent Persian reports

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Inside Iran’s hospitals where injured protesters taken to morgues while they still had vital signs

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Doctors in Iran tell Independent Persian’s Amirhossein Miresmaeili they were prevented from treating wounded protesters and forced to log gunshot wounds as tumours or car accidents

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Mass executions in Iran being planned after Trump talks end, lawyers claim

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: The Islamic Republic has now entered a new phase of systematic repression, reports Amirhossein Miresmaeili, as lawyers warn of an unprecedented scale of repression despite ongoing meetings with the US

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Strangled, snatched from hospital beds and tortured: Horrific new claims expose Iran’s deadly protest crackdown

Reports reaching Independent Persian describe systemic abuse and the covert transfer of bodies to morgues as a UN rapporteur warns the total death toll could reach 20,000

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Pictures of hundreds of people killed in Iran’s violent crackdown on protests leaked

Many of the victims were reportedly so disfigured, they could not be identified

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Inside Iran’s protests: ‘Either we overthrow the regime, or we are destroyed. We have nothing left to lose’

Independent Persian has received messages from protestors within Iran via Starlink satellite that describe a ‘war-like situation’. Amirhossein Miresmaeili reports

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Reza Pahlavi: Iranians want to be free

In an interview with Independent Persian, exiled prince Reza Pahlavi outlines his visions for Iran’s future

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Taliban bans key university textbooks on women’s rights, human rights and Western philosophy

Some textbooks were written by women while others were deemed ‘incompatible with Islamic sharia’

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Two months after its war with Israel, Iran braces for another showdown

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: As Europe considers triggering the JCPOA's snapback mechanism and reimposing sanctions, Independent Persian’s editor-in-chief Camelia Entekhabifard warns about the possibility of a second Iran-Israel war

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Meet the Afghan girls building robots at home after the Taliban stopped their education

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: A group of computer science students, whose studies were cut short by the Taliban, speak to Mukhtar Wafayee about their new venture

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From ‘Sapiens’ to ‘The Book of Mormon’: The banned books the Taliban deems ‘deviant’ and ‘un-Islamic’

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Hundreds of titles removed from shelves for being ‘against national interests’, reports Mukhtar Wafayee

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Executions, arrests and paranoia: Inside Iran’s crackdown on its own people after Israeli strikes

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: In the wake of Israel’s attacks, Iran has brought in new laws, issued a surge of death penalties on the spot and arrested people for ‘suspicious movement’ to control society, suppress dissent, and escape its own crisis of legitimacy, writes Amirhossein Miresmaeili

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Voices: The Islamic Republic’s authority is a casualty of its war with Israel

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: The image of the Islamic Republic’s crumbling edifice is visible not just to Iranians but to the world. This could be the point of no return, writes Azadeh Eftekhari

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Life inside Iran: How war reduced bustling Tehran to a desert of empty streets and boarded-up shops

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Ordinary Iranians are now caught in a war they neither chose nor are prepared for, reports Sayeh Rahimy

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Afghan women workers at risk as Taliban tightens restrictions

Restrictions on female employment mean that many women are forced to work in dangerous conditions

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The workshop producing Timurid tiles in Herat

Tile making has flourished in Herat for over eight centuries, reaching its peak during the Timurid period

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Who are the Qizilbash Turks of Iran?

Once famed for their role in supporting the Safavid dynasty, meet the Qizilbash Turks who live in the north of Iran

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‘We exist but we are ignored’: The Iranian disability rights activist on a mission to change things

Vahid Rajbaloo says one of the biggest problems people with disabilities face is that others do not know how to interact with them

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