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Iran’s Currency Hits New Low Against the Dollar Amid Unrest

Iran’s currency dropped to its lowest value against the dollar on Tuesday, after weeks of nationwide unrest roiling the country. A stalemate in negotiations to revive Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers has also weighed heavily on the rial. Traders in Tehran exchanged the rial at 338,000 to the dollar,…

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Iran's currency hits new low against the dollar amid unrest

Iran’s currency has dropped to its lowest value against the dollar, as nationwide unrest and a stalemate in negotiations to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers have been weighing heavily on the rial

The Independent UK

Iran to hold public trials for 1,000 people involved in Mahsa Amini protests

Iranian authorities announced on Monday they will hold public trials for 1,000 people in the capital, Tehran, over the protests that have convulsed the country. The mass indictments mark the government's first major legal action aimed at quashing dissent since unrest erupted over six weeks ago.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard steps up efforts to crush nationwide hijab protests

Powerful branch of armed forces menaces protesters with threats of violence and jail

The Independent UK

Protests persist as Iran holds first court sessions for ‘rioters’

Iranian officials criticise UN rapporteur while large number of journalists calls for freeing of arrested colleagues.

Al Jazeera

Iran Charges 1,000 Over Unrest in Tehran

Iran's hardline judiciary will hold public trials of about 1,000 people indicted over unrest in Tehran, a semi-official news agency said on Monday, intensifying efforts to crush weeks of protests ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody. One of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leaders since the 1979…

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Iran indicts some 1,000 people in Tehran over unrest, Tasnim reports

About 1,000 people have been indicted in Tehran over rioting and the trials will be held in public this week, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the head of the judiciary in the Iranian capital as saying on Monday.

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Iranians hold large rallies in defiance of warning by Revolutionary Guards head

Raids on student campuses spark protests despite threats made by chief of security force that unrest must stop

The Guardian - UK

Iran and US set for UN confrontation over Mahsa Amini protests

An Iranian intelligence report claims arrested journalists who reported on Mahsa Amini’s death were trained by the US.

Al Jazeera

Iran security forces fire at protest buildings

Iranian security forces targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said Saturday, as a protest movement that flared over Mahsa Amini's death entered a seventh week.

Bangkok Post

Iran Is an Ever More ‘Relevant’ Problem, Nuclear Watchdog Chief Says

Iran is a problem that is ever more "relevant", the UN nuclear watchdog's chief, Rafael Grossi, said on Friday, in an apparent reference to the growing number of advanced centrifuges Tehran is using to enrich uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said in recent confidential reports to member states…

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Ukraine Foreign Minister Tells Iran Counterpart: Stop Sending Arms to Russia

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had received a phone call from his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday and that he had demanded that Tehran stop sending weapons to Russia. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Iran of sending “kamikaze” drones to Russia which have then been…

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Ukraine foreign minister tells Iran counterpart: Stop sending arms to Russia

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he received a phone call from his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday and that he demanded Tehran stop sending weapons to Russia.

Reuters

Zelensky stands next to downed drone as he says Russia has deployed dozens in two days

Moscow and Tehran have continued to deny claims that Iran has supplied a number of kamikaze Shahed-136 drones to Russia to help them "kill Ukrainian civilians" and destroy infrastructure

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Dead body found in undercarriage of flight from Tehran

Airline and police yet to comment on incident

The Conversation

Iran: protesters call for move to a non-religious state. What changes would that bring?

My friend was in Tehran during protests after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police (Gasht-e Ershad). My friend went into a grocery shop intending to buy milk. The seller refused to sell anything to her. “Why are you refusing?” she asked. “I can…

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IRGC Says Bomb Attack Foiled in Shiraz

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that its intelligence unit had foiled a bomb attack in the southern city of Shiraz, two days after a deadly shooting at a shrine there, the guards' news agency Sepah News said. "A bombing in Mo'ali Abad Street in Shiraz was detected and foiled…

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Dead Body Found in Frankfurt in Undercarriage of Aircraft from Tehran

A dead body was found in the undercarriage of a Lufthansa aircraft that arrived at Frankfurt airport from Tehran on Thursday, German daily Bild reported. The discovery was made by workers after the passengers of flight LH 601 had left the aircraft and the A340 had been moved to a…

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Iran Authorities Step up Crackdown on Protesters, UN Rapporteur Calls for Independent Probe

Iranian security forces have attacked demonstrators, killing and wounding people in Tehran and several other cities. The brutal crackdown on protests came as protesters continued to rally for the 41st day against the backdrop of popular rage over the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody. Javaid Rehman, the…

Evening Standard

Spanish fan detained in Iran on walk to World Cup in Qatar

Santiago Sánchez was detained in Tehran after reportedly visiting Masha Amini’s grave

Reuters

Dead body found at Frankfurt airport in undercarriage of aircraft from Tehran

A dead body was found in the undercarriage of a Lufthansa aircraft that arrived at Frankfurt airport from Tehran on Thursday, German daily Bild reported.

The Independent UK

‘Everyone knew their role’: How Iranians united on a night of dramatic protest against the regime

On Tehran’s Shariati Street, both sides geared up for battle in a confrontation that stretched into the night, as Borzou Daragahi reports

The Guardian - UK

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: ‘Women in Iran have discovered their power and decided to use it’

The demonstrations across Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested for failing to wear her hijab correctly, are a turning point, no matter the outcome

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iranian Authorities Crackdown on Protests Marking 40 Days of Mourning for Amini

Marking 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in Tehran on Sept. 16 after being detained by Iran’s morality police, Iranians took to the streets nationwide in defiance of strict security measures by authorities. Fierce rallies returned with force to major Iranian cities…

Los Angeles Times

US hits Iran with new sanctions as punishment for ‘brutal’ crackdown on protesters

WASHINGTON — With efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal languishing, the Biden administration on Wednesday hit Tehran with a new batch of economic sanctions as punishment for repression of widespread demonstrations against restrictions on women and other issues.

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