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Marchers in Southeast Iran Denounce Khamenei in Renewed Protests

Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing Iran's supreme leader in the restive southeast of the country on Friday, while a human rights group said at least 100 detained protesters were facing possible death sentences. There have been demonstrations across the country against the clerical leadership since mid-September after the death in detention…

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Iran’s Protest Movement and the Future of the Regime

Since assuming power in 1989, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei did not find any president agreeable to his desires and line of thought until Ebrahim Raisi, the current president, took office in 2021. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who came to office with the support of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and pretended…

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Iran Pressures Damascus on ‘Sovereign Concessions’

When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited Tehran last May, one of the urgent requests he made was to send oil to contribute to resolving his country’s economic crisis. In the past years, it has become customary for ships to violate sanctions and waterways.

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Iran Protests: Regime Challenged by Push for Change

More than 100 days of protests in Iran have shattered taboos and shaken the ideological pillars of the Iranian republic in a push for change that has defied a fierce crackdown. The demonstrations, which erupted in mid-September following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, are a reflection of…

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Nicholas Goldberg: The hijab is rallying protesters in Iran, but the unrest is about so much more

I once spent a week in a region of southern Sudan where almost none of the women covered their breasts, and then just two weeks later I flew to Iran, where women are required by law to cover their hair with hijabs as a sign of modesty.

Los Angeles Times

Iranians Hit Streets Again as Protests Enter 4th Month

Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran's restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning a fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. Iran has seen waves of demonstrations since the September 16 death in custody of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who had been…

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Sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader pens open letter condemning 'despotic' caliphate

Badri Hosseini Khamenei said she has cut ties with her brother and that she expresses sympathy with everyone mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Sister of Iran's supreme leader slams crackdown on nationwide protests

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests. This, as former president Mohammed Khatami threw his support behind the protest movement too.

Radio France Internationale

Sister of Iran’s Khamenei Condemns His Rule, Urges Revolutionary Guards to Disarm

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son. Iran has been gripped by unrest since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman…

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Sister of Iran's leader condemns his rule, urges Guards to disarm - letter

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.

Reuters

Khamenei Calls for Overhaul of Iran’s Cultural System

Iran’s Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday called for "revolutionary reconstruction of the country's cultural system", state media reported, as nationwide protests kept up pressure on the authorities. "It is necessary to revolutionize the country's cultural structure... the supreme council should observe the weaknesses of culture in different fields of…

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Iran: Almost Three Months of Anti-hijab Protests

The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest and alleged assault by Iran's notorious morality police almost three months ago sparked the biggest protests in the Iranian republic in years. Women and girls have led the charge against compulsory headscarves. A general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has said…

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Iran leader's niece slams her uncle's 'child-killing regime' amid mass protests

Farideh Moradkhani said people in Iran are fighting the regime’s "Satanic forces of evil" with remarkable courage and called on the world to support Iran’s "lions and lionesses"

Daily Mirror

Iran Reportedly Asks Iraq to Continue Efforts to Mediate between Regional Countries

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and discussed strengthening political and economic relations. An official Iraqi source said Wednesday that Tehran had asked Sudani to stick to Iraq's role in bringing views between regional countries closer. On Tuesday, Sudani arrived in Tehran…

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Iranian General Acknowledges over 300 Dead in Unrest

An Iranian general on Monday acknowledged that more than 300 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding nationwide protests, giving the first official word on casualties in two months. That estimate is considerably lower than the toll reported by Human Rights Activists in Iran, a US-based group that has…

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Khamenei's Niece Arrested after Urging World to Cut Ties with Iran

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's niece, a well known rights activist, has called on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran over its violent crackdown on popular unrest kindled by the death in police custody of a young woman. A video of a statement by Farideh Moradkhani, an engineer…

The Independent UK

Iran leader praises force tasked with quashing protests

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a televised address has praised paramilitary volunteers tasked with quashing dissent

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Iran’s Khamenei Praises Basij Forces for Confronting ‘Riots’

Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Basij militia forces sacrificed their lives in "riots" sparked by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in September. The Basij force, affiliated with the country's Revolutionary Guards, has been at the forefront of the state crackdown on…

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Bobby Ghosh: Iran’s regime is already a big loser at the World Cup

There is a long tradition of authoritarian states using soccer’s World Cup to distract attention — domestic and foreign alike — from their tyranny. The Islamic Republic milked buckets of self-serving propaganda out of the national team’s participation in the quadrennial competition, never more than in 1998 when Iran beat…

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Iran: Videos Show Flames at Khomeini Home

Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Iranian regime’s late founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters. Reuters verified the location of two video clips using the distinctive arches and buildings that match file images.…

The Independent UK

Shops in Iran, including Grand Bazaar, close over protests

Iranian shops in Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar and elsewhere across the country have closed their doors amid protests gripping the nation

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Iran Stuck between Domestic Turmoil, Isolation Abroad

The regime in Iran is not only dealing with widespread turmoil at home but also is facing isolation abroad.

The Guardian - UK

Iranian activist Masih Alinejad: ‘It’s the start of the end for the Islamic Republic’

The exiled journalist on why Iran’s rulers fear the women’s uprising and why western leaders are failing protesters

The Independent UK

Power or profit: Why Iran is helping Russia wage war in Ukraine

Ukraine says captured Iranian drones were likely delivered to Russia after the war began

The Independent UK

‘Listen to the people’: Cracks appear within Iran’s ruling elite over protest movement

Even some hardliners are acknowledging the demands of demonstrators

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