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Iran’s Month in Hate Speech

Hate speech may start with words but it can end in more than just tears – it can end with violence and even death. IranWire's "Iran's Week in Hate ...
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Khamenei’s succession becomes a point of contention in the upcoming sham elections

On January 7, Javan news website, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), published an article in which it said, “[Former regime president Hassan] Rouhani is a candidate ...
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Iran’s Guardian Council Bars Candidates To Secure Succession Plans

Critics argue that barring certain candidates from the Assembly of Experts elections, is an attempt to safeguard leadership plans in the event of Ali Khamenei’s death. The Guardian Council, ...
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Iranian regime officials increasingly worried about upcoming elections

As Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei continues his theatrical engineering of his regime’s sham elections, he continues to fumble in ways that further humiliate his regime. On December ...
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Neglected Reformists Turn Their Backs To Elections

While Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei says he wants a high-turnout election in March, his followers show no intention to give a fair chance to their rivals, the Reformists. In ...
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Why Iran is going on the offensive

The Iranian leadership has never made any secret of its antipathy to the United States. Weekly “Death to America” chants are not rhetorical excess — they are policy direction. ...
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