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Iran-US World Cup clash rife with political tension

The last World Cup clash between the United States and Iran 24 years ago is considered one of the most politically charged matches in soccer history

The Independent UK

Iran acknowledges more than 300 are dead from unrest from nationwide protests

The estimate from a military official of people dead from protests is considerably lower than the toll reported by a U.S.-based group that has been closely tracking the protests.

WEKU

Iran: Niece of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls on countries to cut ties with regime

Farideh Moradkhani comes from a branch of the family that has a record of opposition to Iran’s clerical leadership

Evening Standard

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Niece of supreme leader asks world to cut ties with Iran

The niece of Iran's supreme leader is calling for people to pressure their governments to cut ties with Tehran

The Independent UK

Niece of Iran’s supreme leader arrested after call to boycott ‘child-killing regime’

Moradkhani calls on international leaders to ‘stop any dealing with this regime’

The Independent UK

Niece of Iran’s supreme leader calls on other countries to cut ties with regime

Rights activist Farideh Moradkhani releases video describing government as ‘murderous and child-killing’ after her arrest

The Guardian - UK

Niece of Iran's Supreme Leader urges world to cut ties with Tehran - online video

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's niece, a well known rights activist, has called on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran over its violent crackdown on popular unrest kindled by the death in police custody of a young woman.

Reuters

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Iran leader praises force tasked with quashing dissent

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said paramilitary volunteers "sacrificed themselves" to protect people from "rioters," as eye doctors warn that demonstrators have been blinded in the anti-government protests.

WEKU

Iran's Khamenei says negotiating with US won't end recent 'troubles'

Tehran (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that negotiating with the United States would not put an end to the "troubles" that have rocked the Islamic republic over the past two months.

AFP

Iran's Khamenei praises Basij forces for confronting 'riots' - TV

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Basij militia forces sacrificed their lives in "riots" sparked by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in September.

Reuters

Saman Ghoddos on Iran, the World Cup and ‘playing for the people’

The Brentford forward heads to Qatar with his country with a worrying backdrop of political strife and protest back home

The Independent UK

Activists fear major Iran crackdown in Kurdish-populated town

Paris (AFP) - Activists on Sunday expressed alarm that Iran was implementing a major crackdown in a Kurdish-populated town that has seen intense anti-regime protests in the last few days.

AFP

Iran leader says 'enemies' may target workers as protests rage

Protests raged on at Iranian universities and in some cities on Saturday as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the country's "enemies" may try to mobilise workers after failing to topple the Islamic government in more than two months of unrest.

Reuters

Iran forces kill 3 more protesters in western province

Paris (AFP) - Iranian security forces killed at least three protesters Saturday in the latest violence against demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a rights group said.

AFP

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AFP

Angry funerals spark new protests in Iran

Paris (AFP) - Funerals for young Iranians, including a small boy, who families say were killed in a state crackdown, sparked a new wave of anti-regime protests on Friday in the Islamic republic.

AFP

Iran protesters set fire to Khomeini's ancestral home: images

Paris (AFP) - Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as two months of anti-regime demonstrations show no letup, images showed on Friday.

The Independent UK

Saman Ghoddos on Iran, the World Cup and ‘playing for the people’

The Brentford forward heads to Qatar with his country with a worrying backdrop of political strife and protest back home

Daily Mirror

Iran may execute 15,000 jailed anti-hijab protesters to teach them 'hard lesson'

There are a staggering 15,000 anti-hijab protesters currently in the custody of Iran's cruel Revolutionary Guard Corps - and lawmakers have voted for them all to be sentenced to death

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The Conversation

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 Guardian - UK

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

AFP

Britain says Iran threatened UK-based reporters with death

Paris (AFP) - Britain on Friday accused Iran of threatening the lives of UK-based journalists, after a crackdown that rights groups say has left more than 300 anti-regime protesters dead in Iran itself.

AFP

Angry Iranians protest 'Bloody Friday' massacre

Paris (AFP) - Hundreds of angry men protested after Friday prayers in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province, online videos showed, six weeks after rights groups say dozens were killed during a crackdown in the region.

Reuters

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.

France 24

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.

Bangkok Post

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…

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