Tribute to Mahsa Amini

Iran’s failed economy will lead to major protests in Iran

Aug 04 2020

Out-of-control inflation, financial problems, a new surge in Coronavirus cases and deaths, and a slew of other social and economic shortfalls have accumulated in Iran, ...

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Protests across Iran over the past few days

Jul 29 2020

Iran has seen protests across the country in the past few days, following the Free Iran Global Summit 2020, with people rightly angry at the ...

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A newspaper in Iran is censured for interview defending people’s right to revolt

Jul 28 2020

Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which oversees censorship in the clergy-dominated country, has cnesured Etemad, a local pro-reform daily for an interview touching ...

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More than 500 Public Figures in Iran call for release of Anti-Poverty NGO founder

Jul 28 2020

In an open letter, more than 500 Iranian film directors, authors, and legal experts have expressed concern over restrictions on the Imam Ali Society and ...

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Iran jails 20 protesting downing of Ukrainian plane

Jul 27 2020

Iran's Revolutionary Courts have in the past six months sentenced twenty individuals who participated in peaceful protests against the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane ...

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Protests swept Iran last weekend

Jul 23 2020

Iranians in several cities have held protests over dire working conditions and unpaid wages this week, despite the regime’s crackdown on protests of any type ...

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State repression has not stopped a renewed wave of protests and strikes

Jul 22 2020

A brief attempt to intimidate the thousands of Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers who have been on strike since 14 June (see 'Haft Tappeh sugar ...

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Iran’s regime fears global consensus and people’s rising anger

Jul 21 2020

With the intensifying isolation of the Iranian regime, internally and globally, the regime’s fear is growing about the people and the fast-changing policies against it.

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Iran arrests ‘perpetrators’ of last week’s protests

Jul 20 2020

Iranian police on Monday said they have arrested people behind protests that broke out last week in the south-west of the country, state news agency ...

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Police chief in Iran threatens to shot protesters

Jul 17 2020

The police chief in Behbahan, a southwestern Iranian city where the first of what appears to be a new round of protests took place Thursday ...

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Protesters in Iran chant against regime as flames ignite again

Jul 17 2020

The protests were called on from before against death sentences issued for protesters, the grave state of the economy, and the China-Iran deal which Iranians ...

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Following Khamenei's call to all young Syrians to apply themselves against the new government and intensely support the Axis of resistance, the Syrians warned Iran not to intervene in internal affairs. Not only is this a show of weakness, but apparently the Iranian regime is hiding a renewed tide of ISIS-style terror attacks in several urban areas, especially along the Afghani border and in Mashhad. Now the regime caved and released the Italian journalist without using her as a bargaining chip. Why do you think Iran is so hesitant?