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Iran Holds First Parliamentary Election Amid Low Voter Turnout

Iran's parliamentary election aftermath amid low turnout, conservative dominance, and economic struggles.

Top News

Iranians Vote In Elections As Conservatives Expected To Dominate

Iranians voted on Friday in elections for parliament and a key clerical body, amid fears of a low turnout and with conservatives expected to tighten their grip on power.

International Business Times

Iranians expected to shun first election since death of Mahsa Amini

Turnout of 38.5% or less predicted despite moves to make voting easier and allow more candidates

The Guardian - UK

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Iran begins voting as conservatives expected to dominate

Polling stations in Iran opened Friday for voting to select members of parliament and a key clerical body, amid fears of a low turnout and with conservatives expected to tighten their grip on power.

France 24

Iran Gears Up For Elections Dominated By Conservatives

Iranians will cast ballots in legislative and key assembly elections on Friday, with conservatives expected to tighten their grip on power in the absence of any serious competition.

International Business Times

China and Iran Have Their WikiLeaks Moment

Hackers have unmasked some of the tactics Beijing and Tehran use to silence their opponents.

Reason

Economic Pain Casts Dark Shadow As Iranians Go To Vote

As Iranians head to the polls for legislative and other elections on Friday, candidates have promised them on campaign posters to "fight corruption" and "fix the economy".

International Business Times

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Where freedom meets repression: Australian academics tread a fine line over ties to Iran

More than 20 papers involving collaboration have been published in the past year, despite the government warning against joint research projects

The Guardian - AU

Iran's Parliament Election Sees Record Number Of Candidates

Iran's upcoming parliamentary election sees record candidates post-protests over Mahsa Amini's death, shaping the political landscape.

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Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which Meta said violated its policies

The Guardian - US

Iran executes 2022 protester for murder

Human rights advocates criticise Mohammad Ghobadlou’s conviction, saying he did not get a fair trial.

Al Jazeera

What Iranians Want by Arash Azizi review – the quest for a normal life

Nearly 18 months after the death of Mahsa Amini, a detailed and hopeful record of the movement that grew in its wake

The Guardian - UK

A day after release, Iran’s journalists charged for not wearing hijab

Two journalists who were released after a 17-month prison sentence – for their reports on Mahsa Amini’s death – have now been accused of violating Iran’s hijab laws, The Guardian reported.

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The Guardian - UK

Iranian journalists celebrating release from jail charged for not wearing hijab

Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were charged in 2023 for their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini

Al Jazeera

Iran lodges hijab case against journalists day after temporary release

New proceedings launched against the two journalists for posing without the mandatory hijab upon their release.

The Independent UK

Iran sentences imprisoned Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to an additional prison term

A court in Iran has slapped imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi with an additional sentence of 15 months for allegedly spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic

Evening Standard

Iranian journalists jailed for covering death of a young woman after hijab arrest released from prison

The two women were jailed by the Iranian state

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The Independent UK

Iranian woman whipped 74 times for not covering her head

Flogging of Roya Heshmati sparks outrage in Iran for ‘inhumane’ punishment

The Independent UK

Spaniard imprisoned in Iran after visiting grave of Mahsa Amini arrives home after release

A Spanish man who spent 15 months in an Iranian prison after visiting the tomb of Mahsa Amini has returned home to Madrid after being released

The Guardian - UK

From Salman Rushdie to RuPaul: the books to look out for in 2024

Memoirs from Neneh Cherry and Rebel Wilson, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to Brooklyn and a departure for Ali Smith – the biggest fiction and nonfiction for the year ahead

France 24

Women's rights and women wronged in 2023

The year saw progress on women’s rights in some countries, such as Spain’s introduction of menstrual leave, France’s bid to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution and the arrival of the #MeToo movement in Taiwan. But there were also setbacks in 2023, from Taliban edicts tightening restrictions on Afghan women…

The Guardian - UK

‘We live with a gun to our heads’: how Iran is targeting protesters in Britain

As David Cameron says the Iranian regime threatens people on UK soil, Iranians talk about the threats, harassment and intimidation they experience for organising British protests

France 24

Several killed in separatist gun attack on Iran police station, state TV says

Suspected members of a separatist group killed 11 people and injured several others in a nighttime attack on a police station in southeastern Iran, state TV said Friday.

The Independent UK

EU remembers Iranian woman who died in custody at awarding of Sakharov human rights prize

The European Parliament is remembering a young woman who died in Iranian police custody during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were officially awarded the EU’s top human rights prize

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