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Bobby Ghosh: Oil and gas workers add fuel to Iranian protesters’ fire

They took their time about it, but Iran’s oil workers seem finally to have joined the anti-regime protests. Videos on social media platforms reportedly show marches and demonstrations in Abadan and Assaluyeh, vital hubs in the country’s petroleum and petrochemicals sector.

Tribune News Service

‘Prepare for back-breaking strikes’: Iran energy workers take action as protests against regime widen

Videos showed workers chanting ‘death to the dictator’

The Independent UK

Britain Sanctions Iran’s Morality Police, Senior Security Officials

Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and its "so-called Morality Police", saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they behave in public. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody have sparked protests…

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Iran State TV Hacked with Image of Khamenei in Crosshairs

Hackers supporting Iran's wave of women-led protests interrupted a state TV news broadcast with an image of gun-sight crosshairs and flames over an image of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, in footage widely shared online on Sunday. In other anti-regime messages, activists have spray-painted "Death to Khamenei" and "The police are…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iranian security forces arresting children in school, reports claim

Authorities shut all schools in Iranian Kurdistan as protests continue in cities and state TV is interrupted by apparent hack

The Guardian - UK

Protests Continue across Iran as Rights Group Reports 19 Minors Killed

Protests ignited by the death of a young woman in police custody continued across Iran on Sunday despite a fierce crackdown by the authorities, as a human rights group said at least 185 people, including children, had been killed in the unrest. Demonstrations that began on Sept. 17 at the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran state television hacked live on air with image of Ayatollah in flames and crosshair on his head

Footage also shows photos of women who have died in Iran in a month and features a protest hymn

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Women Students Tell Iran’s President to ‘Get Lost’ as Unrest Rages

Female students in Tehran chanted "get lost" as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody, videos on social media showed. Raisi addressed professors and students at Alzahra University in Tehran, reciting a poem that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Are hijab protests ‘the beginning of the end’ for Iran’s regime?

The uprising over the death of Mahsa Amini is like no other, but whether it leads to revolution remains to be seen

The Guardian - UK

Canada barring entry to IRGC members in new Iran sanctions push

Canadian sanctions come amid growing international condemnation over crackdown on anti-government protests across Iran.

Al Jazeera

Iran: 'hijab' protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic

Three weeks after the violent death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police for the crime of wearing her hijab improperly, protests continue to rage across the country. These demonstrations defy both repression by security forces in the streets of major cities and…

The Conversation

Emily Sheffield: We can hope for the young women of Iran, but hope is not enough

Who can watch the stirring videos circulating worldwide of the extraordinarily brave young female protesters in Iran, some of them schoolgirls, without fearing for their safety? The most recent clip shows teenagers in their school taking off their headscarves and angrily chanting “Get lost” to a visiting member of the…

Evening Standard

Iran to investigate death of schoolgirl in early days of protests

Authorities respond to growing outrage over death of Nika Shakrami, but continue violent crackdown

The Guardian - UK

Bobby Ghosh: Iran’s ruler faces a formidable new foe — schoolgirls

A week ago, I worried that the anti-regime demonstrations in Iran might falter if the mostly young protesters didn’t get some help from grown-ups — like the trade unions, say, or the so-called moderate elements within the theocratic state. I reckoned it would take the participation of groups of that…

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Axios

Defiance spreads in Iran despite crackdowns

"After the stand they've made here, there's really no going back."

The Independent UK

‘They’re taking him away’: Iran unrest continues, as leader blames west

More than 130 people have died in demonstrations in Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini, some of the worst street violence since the 1979 revolution

The Guardian - UK

Iranian students defy security forces after violence at university

Rights groups ‘extremely concerned’ about violent repression of demonstrations in Tehran and Isfahan

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran’s Khamenei Says Protests, Riots Were ‘Planned’

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn the violent rioting and accuse protests of being planned by the US and Israel. Khamenei described the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's…

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Reuters

Iranian Supreme Leader's comments on protests to be released soon - Tasnim

Comments from Iran's Supreme Leader on nationwide protests over the death in custody of a young woman will be released soon, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Latest Iran Protests Likely Not Last for Tehran

Only glimpses of videos that make it online show the protests convulsing Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police. But those flashes show that public anger across the country, once only simmering, is now boiling. The demonstrations surrounding the death…

France 24

Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei's health issues prompt fresh speculation on succession

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83, made his first public appearance on September 17 since falling ill earlier this month, which prompted a fresh round of questions about who might eventually succeed him. Among the favourites in the running are President Ebrahim Raisi and the Supreme leader’s son Mojtaba…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hundreds Rally in Paris, European Cities to Denounce Iran Regime

Hundreds of expatriate Iranians rallied in Paris and other European cities on Saturday to denounce Iran's crackdown on protests following the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by morality police. The protesters gathered in the central Place du Chatelet in the French capital and chanted slogans against supreme leader…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kurdish Protesters Rally in Erbil over Amini's Death in Iran

Dozens of Iraqi and Iranian Kurds rallied in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Saturday over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died in the custody of Iranian police. Protestors carrying placards with Amini's photograph gathered outside the United Nations compound in Erbil chanting "Death to the…

The Independent UK

Iran’s army threatens to step in against ‘enemies’ as country braced for fresh protests

President Raisi heads home from New York to a country on the edge

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran’s Khamenei Gives Second Speech after Report of Illness

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei spoke for the second time in less than a week in a televised speech on Wednesday, appearing healthy after a report that he had been under observation by a team of doctors. The New York Times reported on Sept. 16 that Khamenei, 83, had cancelled…

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