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The Latest Breaking News from Tehran

Iranian students defy security forces after violence at university

Rights groups ‘extremely concerned’ about violent repression of demonstrations in Tehran and Isfahan

The Guardian - UK

US Denies Releasing Iranian Funds Held Abroad in Exchange for Setting Namazi Free

The Biden administration has welcomed Iran allowing the US-Iranian dual national Bagher Namazi to leave the country after having banned him from travel for seven years but denied that the release was linked to unfreezing Iranian funds in South Korea. Namazi’s son, Siamak Namazi, was also granted a provisional release…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Riot police raid Iran’s Sharif University after student protest

Students at Sharif University in Tehran had been demonstrating on the 16th day of protests after Mahsa Amini’s death.

Al Jazeera

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India Scrambles Fighter Jets after Report of Bomb Scare on Flight from Iran

India's air force (IAF) said on Monday it had scrambled fighter jets after receiving information of a bomb scare on an airline bearing Iranian registration transiting through Indian airspace. The air force said it later received information from Iran's capital Tehran to disregard the bomb scare and the flight continued…

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Top Iran Official Warns Protests Could Destabilize Country

Iran’s parliamentary speaker warned Sunday that protests over the death of a young woman in police custody could destabilize the country and urged security forces to deal harshly with those he claimed endanger public order, as countrywide unrest entered its third week. Posts on social media showed there were scattered…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Phoning mum in Iran

When will the PM condemn Iran's government?

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Iran releases US-Iranian detainee as protests roil country

Iran has released from detention an Iranian-American businessman who was jailed seven years ago during a visit to Tehran, and his elderly father, the United Nations said in a statement on Saturday.

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Iranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release

Siamak Namazi, convicted along with father on espionage charges freed from Evin prison on one-week renewable furlough

The Guardian - US

U.S. citizen allowed to leave Iranian prison for a week

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years on espionage-related charges rejected by Washington as baseless, has been allowed out of Tehran's Evin prison on a one-week furlough, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Reuters

Iran, U.S. prisoner swap mediated by regional state -Nournews

A regional country has mediated between Iran and the United States for the "simultaneous release of prisoners," Iran's Nournews said on Saturday, shortly after Tehran allowed an Iranian-American businessman out of prison on a one-week furlough.

Reuters

Protesters rally across Iran in third week of unrest over Amini's death

Protesters rallied across Iran and strikes were reported throughout the country's Kurdish region on Saturday as demonstrations ignited by the death of a woman in police custody entered their third week.

Reuters

Protests enter 15th day in Iran amid lingering internet curbs

Protests were recorded across several cities on Saturday, with Iranians abroad also organising demonstrations.

Al Jazeera

How Iranian Informants Were Failed by the CIA

The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed. Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok. There, the Iranian industrial engineer would meet his Central Intelligence Agency handlers. But before he could pay his exit tax to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran arrests Europeans accused of role in protests, 19 killed during attack on police station

Iran arrests nine European nationals, blaming "foreign enemies" for protests sweeping the country after the death of a woman while in the custody of morality police.

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Reuters

Iran arrests Europeans accused of role in unrest

Iran, which has blamed "foreign enemies" for protests that swept the country after the death of a woman in morality police custody, said on Friday it had arrested nine European nationals for their role in the unrest.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Washington Imposes New Sanctions on Iran’s Petroleum Sales

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on companies it accused of involvement in Iran's petrochemical and petroleum trade, pressuring Tehran as it seeks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “So long as Iran refuses a mutual return to full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),…

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Internet Blackout in Iran Threatens 400,000 Professions, Risks Unemployment of 1 Million Iranians

The E-Commerce Association in Tehran warned Thursday of a new collapse in the labor market. It said that 400,000 Iranian businesses were at risk of going bust and one million people will likely lose their jobs as a result of the internet blackout. The Association issued a statement on its…

Reuters

Soccer-Women's rights group calls on FIFA to kick Iran out of World Cup

Rights group Open Stadiums have called on FIFA to throw Iran out of the World Cup finals in Qatar in November because of the country's treatment of women.

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Iran Targets Celebrities, Media over Mahsa Amini Protests

Iran stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists Thursday over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the Iranian republic's morality police. Filmmakers, athletes, musicians and actors have backed the demonstrations, and many saw it as a signal…

The Guardian - UK

Iran puts pressure on celebrities and journalists over Mahsa Amini protests

Tehran says film-makers, athletes and actors who have backed demonstrations ‘fanned flames of riots’

Al Jazeera

With new sanctions, US vows to ‘severely restrict’ Iran oil sales

The Biden administration explicitly links fresh round of US sanctions to failure to restore 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.

Radio France Internationale

Tehran condemns France for interfering in Iranian internal affairs

Iran on Thursday criticised France for "interference" in its internal affairs after the Paris authorities voiced support for those protesting over the death in custody of young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, arrested by Iranian morality police.

The Independent UK

Iran's anti-government protests wane but discontent lingers

An Iranian official says protests over the death of a woman who was being held by the morality police have ended in Tehran

The Conversation

Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of the “morality police” in Tehran.

Reuters

Iran summons French charge d'affaires in Tehran

Iran summoned the chargé d'affaires of the French embassy in Tehran over France's stance on the unrest that has gripped Iran over the past two weeks over the death of Mahsa Amini, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday.

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