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Iran authorities arrest actress of Oscar-winning movie

Iran’s state media say authorities have arrested one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests

The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2022

Iran Says Enriched Uranium Capacity Hits Record

Iran said Saturday its uranium enrichment capacity has increased to record levels, a day before UN nuclear monitors are set to visit the country. "Currently, the enrichment capacity of the country has reached more than twice the entire history of this industry," Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 17, 2022

Fate of Belgian aid worker jailed in Tehran linked to Iranian prisoner in Belgium

Iranian authorities have imposed a 28-year sentence on jailed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, a spokesman for his family said. His fate is linked to that of an Iranian diplomat accused of masterminding a 2018 foiled bomb plot in Paris.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 17, 2022

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Social Media Report Protests by Iranian Oil Workers for Higher Wages

Social media posts on Saturday purported to show a group of protesting oil workers in southern Iran demanding higher wages and retirement bonuses. The reported oil workers’ protests, which Reuters could not verify, comes amid an uprising across Iran, the boldest challenge to the republic since the 1979 revolution. The…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 17, 2022

European MPs Support Iranian Detainees

European lawmakers across the continent have started to sponsor Iranian detainees, hoping to shed light on their injustice and force authorities to back down from handing down lengthy jail sentences or carrying out executions. Sponsoring MPs take responsibility for lobbying for the safety of individual prisoners, demanding information on their…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 17, 2022

Iranians Hit Streets Again as Protests Enter 4th Month

Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran's restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning a fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. Iran has seen waves of demonstrations since the September 16 death in custody of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who had been…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 17, 2022

EU-made ammunition used in Iran repression: Iranians demand answers

An investigation by the FRANCE 24 Observers has provoked a furious reaction from Iranians in Iran and around the world. In an article published November 25, the Observers team published photographs showing 13 shotgun cartridges bearing the logos of Cheddite, a French-Italian ammunition manufacturer, that had been recovered from protests…

France 24 · Dec 16, 2022

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Iranian government accused of 'sham trials' and 'torture' as protestors face executions

Iran has conducted the first known execution in relation to the anti-government protests, hanging a man for "waging war against God". Now there are fears many more could face execution under these "sham trials".

ABC News · Dec 16, 2022

Iranian Protesters in Germany Stage Hunger Strike

A group of Iranians reached the final day of a hunger strike on Friday while camped out in tents outside Iran’s consulate in Frankfurt in support of the protest movement back home. Iran has been rocked by huge demonstrations since the September death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 16, 2022

Movie review: ‘Holy Spider’ weaves gripping tale of serial killer

Is murdering prostitutes in modern-day Iran the work of God? It is if you are the madman and religious fanatic carrying out a reign of serial-killer terror in the gripping and horrifying “Holy Spider” in the early 21-century city of Mashhad, the second most populous city in Iran and the…

Boston Herald · Dec 16, 2022

Prominent Iranian Cleric Urges Release of Protest Detainees

A prominent dissident Sunni Muslim cleric urged Iranian authorities on Friday to free thousands of detained protesters and stop executions as the three-month-old unrest churned on with street marches in a restive southeastern province. Amnesty International said 26 people faced possible execution after Tehran hanged two people arrested over the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 16, 2022

Prominent Iranian Sunni cleric urges release of protest detainees

Reuters · Dec 16, 2022

Russia confident of securing up to 250 ballistic missiles from Iran as it runs short of its own

Vladimir Putin has begged the Iranians for a larger missile supply but sources indicate he will not receive more than 250 from a Tehran regime preoccupied with protests

Daily Mirror · Dec 16, 2022

Iranian regime U-turns on decision to execute 16-year-old girl as crowd demands release

Sonia Sharifi, 16, was set to be killed yesterday, but was thankfully released from Ilam prison in western Iran at around 3pm after being held there for a month

Daily Mirror · Dec 16, 2022

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France 24 · Dec 16, 2022

Exiles: Meet the Iranian women taking up arms in Iraqi Kurdistan

Her death has sparked the biggest uprising against the Iranian regime since the mullahs came to power more than 40 years ago. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died on September 16 after being arrested by Iran's morality police for violating the country’s strict dress code for women. Since then,…

The Conversation · Dec 16, 2022

Iran: dissent by public figures has amplified the protest across the country – and the world

Iran’s Islamic Republic continues to violently suppress ongoing pro-democracy protests, which broke out in September in response to the killing of a young woman who had been arrested for not wearing a proper head covering. According to the NGO Iran Human Rights at least 458 protesters have been killed, including…

France 24 · Dec 16, 2022

Photographer Reza on Iran: 'The regime knows that these are its last days'

Three months after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini sparked a mass protest movement, renowned exiled French-Iranian photographer Reza Deghati says he believes the end of Iran's Islamic Republic is near. He spoke to FRANCE 24 from Baku, Azerbaijan, where he's travelled in order to quickly enter neighbouring Iran in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 16, 2022

Tel Aviv Accuses Tehran of 'Smuggling' Weapons, Experts to Proxies Using Civilian Airline

An Israeli report published Thursday claimed that it uncovered a new means used by Iran to smuggle weapons into Syria and Lebanon, through the private airline Mahan Air. The report said that this discovery came within the framework of Israel’s campaign to thwart the new Iranian smuggling route through Beirut,…

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Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 16, 2022

Tehran Blames Washington for its Ouster from UN Rights Body

Iran sharply criticized the US a day after it was voted out from a UN commission on women's rights for its suppression of demonstrations since the death of Mahsa Amini in September. The death of Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, in the custody of Iran's notorious morality police had triggered…

France 24 · Dec 16, 2022

Lack of leadership is both a strength and weakness of Iran's protest movement

The anti-government protests that have rocked Iran since Mahsa Amini's death on September 16 are unprecedented in scale and duration. But the protests' lack of a clear leader is proving to be both a strength and a weakness – it makes them harder to repress but also impedes the development…

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

White Torture by Narges Mohammadi review – solitary savagery

An Iranian political activist, now in jail herself, interviews 12 female prisoners of the Islamic Republic about their experiences

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 6 – Hit the Road

Emotion bubbles beneath the surface of Panah Panahi’s outstanding road movie, as a family help one son leave Iran – while keeping the truth from his little brother

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

European MPs seek to publicise plight of jailed Iranian protesters

Politicians particularly in Germany taking responsibility for lobbying for the safety of individual prisoners

Daily Mirror · Dec 16, 2022

Iranian student faces death penalty for giving 'chocolates and hugs' in protests

Mohammed Nasiri, 21, has reportedly been accused of "waging war against God" for his part in anti-regime protests in Iran where he was part of a group giving out chocolates and hugs to passers-by

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 15, 2022

Ministry: Iranian Oil Minister Stable after Heart Attack

The Iranian oil minister is in a stable condition after a heart attack on Thursday, the oil ministry said in a statement reported by the official IRNA news agency. "Javad Owji, the minister of oil, was admitted to a public hospital in Tehran following a heart attack which occurred on…

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