RFL/RE – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has broken five days of silence as antiestablishment protests raged in Iran by publicly stiffening the official line from that offered by the country’s president a day earlier.

Al-Arabia – Night protests have continued in the Iran’s capital Tehran and various other cities on Tuesday as clashes between protesters and police turned violent, especially in the northwest city of Mashhad and southern Shiraz.

Al-Arabia – A video was widely shared on social media on Tuesday allegedly showing security forces shooting at protesters in Iran, while their bodies get dragged away from the gunfire.

US President Donald Trump praised Iranian protesters on Tuesday for acting against Tehran’s “brutal and corrupt” regime after days of bloody unrest, while also lashing out at his predecessor Barack Obama. “The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime,” Trump tweeted, a day after calling for regime change in the Islamic republic. “All of …

Al-Arabia – Leaked notes from meetings between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the country’s political leaders and heads of security expressed that the recent nationwide protests have hurt every sector of the economy and “threaten the regime’s security”. The report which was leaked to Fox News, covered several meetings up until December 31. It was translated from Farsi …

Al-Arabia – A video of a woman chanting slogans against the generation that overthrew the shah’s regime in the 1979 Iranian revolution has been widely shared on social networks by Iranian activists.

Al-Arabia – United States Vice President Mike Pence tweeted his support for Iranian protesters saying that his country would not “repeat past mistakes”.

VOA – Iran’s Supreme Leader on Tuesday accused enemies of the Islamic Republic of stirring the violent anti-government protests that began late last week.

  VOANEWS – Iran’s Supreme Leader on Tuesday accused enemies of the Islamic Republic of stirring the violent anti-government protests that began late last week.

VOA – The United States is pondering further sanctions against individuals in the Tehran regime who are responsible for cracking down on Iranian protesters, amid the largest anti-government demonstrations since the country’s disputed presidential election in 2009.