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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…

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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

Evening Standard

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.

Reuters

‘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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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…

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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.

Los Angeles Times

White House: Concerned Moscow may be advising Iran on best practices to manage protests

The White House is concerned Moscow may be advising Tehran on best practices to manage protests in Iran, drawing on Russia's experience in suppressing open demonstrations, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Israel's Herzog warns Biden of mounting Iran 'challenge'

President Joe Biden held Oval Office talks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, with the Israeli leader warning of a mounting Iranian “challenge."

The Independent UK

‘This is a revolution’: On potent 40th day after Mahsa Amini’s death, protests erupt across Iran

Security forces open fire as Iranians protest in huge numbers on symbolic 40th day since death of 22-year-old

The Independent UK

Iran – a revolution in the making

What's happening in Iran is a revolution in the making. It might not happen suddenly, write Behrouz Boochani and Amir Ahmadi Arian, but the fires of uprising have been lit

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The Independent UK

Protesters rally in Iran to mark 40 days since woman's death

Thousands of protesters were pouring into the streets of a northwestern Iranian city to mark the watershed 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini

Al Jazeera

Clashes as thousands attend Mahsa Amini memorial in Iran’s Saqqez

Large crowds converge at cemetery in Amini’s hometown of Saqqez to mark 40 days since her death.

Al Jazeera

Iran blacklists EU officials, entities for ‘inciting terrorism’

In addition to parliament members, several media outlets and a French town mayor were sanctioned by Tehran.

The Independent UK

Spanish man trekking to World Cup believed arrested in Iran

The family of a Spanish man trekking from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 FIFA World Cup says he is believed to be under arrest in Iran where he went missing more than three weeks ago

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Iran Protests at Point of ‘No Return’, Says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Protests engulfing Iran have reached a point of "no return" as demonstrators demand wide reforms beyond the end of mandatory hijab rules, said British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spent six years detained in Tehran. She said the government's crackdown on the popular revolt and shutdown of the internet showed…

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Iran Protesters Rally to Mark 40 Days Since Amini’s Death

Hundreds of protesters poured into the streets of a northwestern Iranian city on Wednesday to mark the watershed 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, whose tragedy sparked Iran's biggest anti-government movement in over a decade. In Amini's Kurdish hometown of Saqez, the birthplace of the…

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Iran Tensions Mount as Students Protest Ahead of Mahsa Amini Ceremony

Iranian students protested Tuesday at multiple universities, defying a bloody crackdown as tensions mount on the eve of planned ceremonies marking 40 days since Mahsa Amini's death. "A student may die but will not accept humiliation," they chanted at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, in the southwestern province of Khuzestan,…

Reuters

Analysis-Iran crackdown may burnish Raisi's credentials for top job

By tightening curbs on women's rights, President Ebrahim Raisi has boosted his hardline credentials and possibly his prospects of becoming Iran's Supreme Leader, even at the cost of provoking mass protests and driving a wedge between many Iranians and the ruling elite, three analysts and a pro-reform official said.

Daily Mirror

Inside notorious and deadly Iran prison as prisoner shares 12-hour interrogations

Anoosheh Ashoori was sentenced to spent time at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, in August 2017 where he spent nearly five years - he returned to the UK in March of this year

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Iranian Judiciary Begins Trial of Protesters

Iranian authorities are slapping charges of an offense that carries the death penalty against protesters who partook in anti-regime demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran. Iran’s judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei announced that courts will trial detainees in…

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Zelensky Says Russia Ordered 2,000 Drones from Iran

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday Russia had ordered around 2,000 drones from Iran, the same kind that Kyiv says Moscow has been using in its recent attacks against Ukraine. According to our intelligence, Russia ordered about 2,000 ‘Shaheds’ from Iran,” AFP quoted Zelensky as saying. The Ukrainian President said Tehran…

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