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Iranians keep up protests over Mahsa Amini death despite mounting fatalities

Iranians kept up anti-government protests on Wednesday despite an increasingly deadly state crackdown, social media reports showed, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the demonstrations as "scattered riots" planned by Iran's enemies.

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Tear gas fired as Iranians rally over Mahsa Amini's death

Paris (AFP) - Iranian security forces fired tear gas Wednesday at a lawyers' protest over Mahsa Amini's death, said a rights group, which also raised the death toll to at least 108 from the crackdown on the nearly month-long movement.

AFP

Iranians to rally over crackdown in Mahsa Amini's home province

Paris (AFP) - Iranian activists called for nationwide protests Wednesday in response to a bloody crackdown on demonstrations over Mahsa Amini's death that a human rights group says has killed at least 108 people.

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Iran reform advocate Tajzadeh jailed for five years

Tehran (AFP) - Leading Iran reformist Mostafa Tajzadeh, who has made repeated public calls for "structural changes" to the Islamic republic, has been jailed for five years, his lawyer said late Tuesday.

AFP

Iranian Journalist Who Broke News on Mahsa Amini Pays Heavy Price

Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specializing in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma. The photo, which Hamedi posted on Twitter…

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Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price

Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma.

Reuters

Foreign ministry confirms that Iran now holds five French citizens in custody

Five French citizens are currently being held in Iran, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Tuesday, increasing by one the previous number confirmed by Paris.

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Iranian security forces intensify crackdown in Kurdistan

Reports of indiscriminate violence come as UK ambassador summoned by Tehran over sanctions

The Guardian - UK

France Says New Citizen Held in Iran, EU Sanctions to Come

France's foreign minister said on Tuesday five of its nationals were being held in Iran and the European Union had agreed the technical aspects to impose sanctions on Tehran, which would come into force next week. France lashed out at Iran on Oct. 6 accusing it of "dictatorial practices" and…

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Iran Racing to Expand Enrichment at Underground Plant, IAEA Report Shows

Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz and now intends to go further than previously planned, a confidential UN nuclear watchdog report seen by Reuters showed on Monday. While indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving…

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'Several' Inmates Dead in Iran Prison Riot

"Several" inmates died and others were injured during a prison riot in northern Iran, during which security forces used tear gas, a judicial official said on Monday. Sunday's riot in Rasht, provincial capital of Gilan, comes as a wave of unrest has rocked Iran since Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini,…

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Anonymous artist turns Tehran fountains blood red in support of Mahsa Amini protesters

The red liquid in the fountains’ basins has been referred to as a protest artwork whose title roughly translates to 'Tehran sinking in blood'

Daily Mirror

Fame No Shield from ‘Frightening’ Iran Arrest Wave

An international footballer, an influential tech-blogger, a woman who was merely eating her breakfast without a headscarf. In Iran no-one who expresses dissent from the ruling theocratic system, including the famous, is safe from being caught in the dragnet of a crackdown that has seen hundreds arrested in more than…

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Iran Returns Star Footballer Daei’s Passport Seized over Protests

Authorities in Iran have returned the passport of Ali Daei, the country's football legend confirmed to AFP on Monday, after confiscating it for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death. Iran has been gripped by nationwide demonstrations since the 22-year-old Kurdish woman's death was announced on September 16, three days after…

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Iran returns star footballer Daei's passport seized over protests

Tehran (AFP) - Authorities in Iran have returned the passport of Ali Daei, the country's football legend confirmed to AFP on Monday, after confiscating it for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death.

Evening Standard

Iran protests: Mahsa Amini’s family being sent death threats, says relative

Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being detained for alleged violations of the country's strict dress code

Daily Mirror

Mahsa Amini: UK sanctions Iran's 'morality police' after death of young woman in custody

The FCDO said it had sanctioned the morality police in its entirety, as well as both its chief, Mohammed Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, and the Head of the Tehran Division, Haj Ahmed Mirzaei

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Iran students, workers defy protest crackdown

Paris (AFP) - Iranian protesters remained defiant Monday with students staging sit-ins and some industrial workers going on strike despite a crackdown activists say has left dozens dead and hundreds more imprisoned.

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Daily Mirror

Mahsa Amini's family say they are receiving death threats amid nationwide unrest

The 22-year-old's cousin said the threats that his family members had received have made them fear for their safety as they are warned not to take part in the demonstrations sparked by her death

Daily Mirror

England asked to boycott World Cup opener and "refuse to give Iran global stage"

Iranian women face “daily harassment, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment” and the recent death of Mahsa Amini has led to more than 130 protestors being killed - but FIFA have ignored campaigners' calls for expulsion

The Guardian - UK

UK announces sanctions against Iran’s morality police

Move comes in response to violent suppression of protests over death of Mahsa Amini in police custody

The Conversation

Headcovers have always been political in Iran – for women on all sides

A friend and I were strolling through Tehran’s streets one afternoon when she was approached by a member of the “morality police,” an agency tasked with enforcing modesty laws in public. First, the policewoman warned her to cover her hair by pulling forward her scarf. Next, she was ordered to…

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Iran protesters defiant despite crackdown

Paris (AFP) - Protesters in Iran remained defiant in the fourth week of a movement against the Islamic republic despite a crackdown including the use of tear gas in Tehran and reports Monday of heavy weaponry used in the Kurdish-populated northwest.

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Iran Toughens Crackdown as Some Oil Workers Reported to Join Protests

Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, social media posts and videos showed, pressing efforts to quell unrest ignited by the death of a woman in morality police custody. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran's Kurdish region,…

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Iran Calls on Foreign Visitors to Respect Law as Protests Persist

Foreign visitors to Iran should respect the country's laws, its foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, as protests continue over a woman's death in police custody that Tehran has blamed on "foreign enemies". Last month, Iran said it had arrested nine European nationals for their role in the unrest over…

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