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Son of Toppled Iranian Shah to Visit Israel

The exiled son of the Iranian Shah toppled in the 1979 revolution will visit Israel this week, Israel's government said on Sunday, calling him the "most senior Iranian personality" to ever pay a public visit to Israel. Israel and Iran enjoyed warmer ties under the US-backed Shah, though they have…

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Son of toppled Iranian Shah to visit Israel

The exiled son of the Iranian Shah toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution will visit Israel this week, Israel's government said on Sunday, calling him the "most senior Iranian personality" to ever pay a public visit to Israel.

Reuters

Time to Ramp up Support for Iranian People, Former Shah’s Son Says

A group of exiled Iranians will increase support for opposition movements in the country so they can continue to pressure the authorities there, amid a crackdown on protests, the last heir to the Iranian monarchy said on Saturday. Iran has been rocked by unrest since the death in police custody…

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Time to ramp up support for Iranian people, former Shah's son says

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Naughty Boy says first years after mum's dementia diagnosis were 'most difficult'

The 42-year-old put his career on hold when beloved mum Zahida, 68, suffered a stroke after a fall in 2017, which led to vascular dementia

Daily Mirror

Fireworks and 'Death to the dictator': Iranians assess the Revolution, 44 years on

Following protests and crackdowns over the past five months, authorities held events to mark the 1979 Revolution this week. They show Iranians have mixed feelings about their nation.

WEKU

‘Andy Warhol in Iran’ — a fictional meeting brings together an artist and a revolutionary in a very real world

Artistic director BJ Jones helms the award-winning drama, based on Warhol’s 1976 visit to the country.

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Iran's regime is cracking under protests, but a challenge remains to ensure the revolution isn't 'hijacked'

There are signs the Islamic Regime is beginning to crack under the weight of protests that have spread across the nation and the diaspora abroad, but Iranians say the real challenge will be ensuring the revolution is not hijacked.

ABC News

Boston cancer researchers create vaccine to kill and prevent brain cancer glioblastoma

BOSTON — Can the cure for deadly cancers be in the cancer itself?

Boston Herald

During ‘silence period’ in Gujarat, RSS outfit installs saffron hoardings urging people to vote

Hours after the first phase of the Gujarat assembly election concluded on December 1, hundreds of hoardings sprang up in Ahmedabad and other parts of the state. This was after the state saw a voter turnout of 63.14 percent in phase one.

Newslaundry

Wales vs Iran: The story of only previous meeting of World Cup opponents

The game was arranged as the Shah of Iran’s son had wanted to watch a British team play in Tehran

The Independent UK

Iran Celebrates 1979 US Embassy Seizure amid Anti-government Protests

Iran held state-sponsored annual rallies on Friday marking the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, as the clerical establishment that has ruled since then struggles to suppress nationwide protests calling for its downfall. Radical students cemented Iran's revolution by storming the embassy soon after the fall of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bengal Brasserie review: Popular Leeds curry house where waiters gave us free drinks and sides

The award winning Bengal Brasserie in Burley has exceptional customer service

Leeds Live

In Iran, all options to curb crisis are bad

'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

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‘We all have dreams’: Iran’s fractured opposition begins to unify in support of protest movement

Discussions on forming a transitional government as Tehran regime faces its gravest challenge in years

Reason

Can the Iran Protests Do Better Than Uprisings of the Past?

This time could really be different.

Tribune News Service

Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi hope ‘Black Adam’ starring the Rock can spawn sequels

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, going back to his pro wrestling days, has always given off that “superhero” vibe so it’s entirely apropos he’s starring in “Black Adam,” a big-budget DC Comics origin story out in theaters this weekend.

The Conversation

Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum - but will they be enough to bring about change?

As protests in Iran drag on into their fourth week over the violent death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman, there are two central questions.

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Braced to crush unrest, Iran's rulers heed lessons of Shah's fall - analysts

Iran's clerical rulers will likely contain the country's eruption of unrest for now, and prospects of the imminent dawn of a new political order are slim if history is any guide, four analysts said.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

For Rowan University president, the protests in Iran are personal

What wells inside him as he watches riot police move against protesters in Iran, said Ali Houshmand, is anger.

The Guardian - UK

We watch the protests in Iran and hope, but false optimism may be clouding our eyes

The backlash against the death of Mahsa Amini has generated viral images of civil unrest, but how complete a picture do they provide?

Daily Record

Scots mum left suffering PTSD after watching tiny son suffer two rare health conditions

Beau Pallester, two, from Glasgow was diagnosed Hirschsprung's disease and Shah-Waardenburg syndrome which has led to the toddler undergoing 18 operations in just two and a half years.

Reason

Mask Mandate Doesn't Violate the First Amendment Right to Engage in Symbolic Expression

From a decision last week by the Washington Court of Appeals in Sehmel v. Shah, written by Judge Lisa Worswick, joined by Acting Chief Judge Anne Cruser and agreed with on this point by Judge Bernard Veljacic: Appellants argue that the act of not wearing a mask communicates a political…

Manchester Evening News

Plans to turn ‘out of control’ 1950s home into eight-room house-share slammed and thrown out

Councillors said they have watched the property grow seemingly week by week.

Wales Online

How settling of old £400m debt triggered release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Money relates to an order placed by the pro-Western Shah in the 1970s for 1,500 British Chieftain tanks and 250 armoured recovery vehicles

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