CHRI – Hamid Rasouli, who died in the Golshahr district of Karaj, west of Tehran, on November 17, 2019, during the recent protests that swept through in Iran, was struck by bullets fired by security forces, one of his relatives told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on condition of anonymity. A 32-year-old married man, Rasouli was “critical of present …

Al-Monitor – Feeling the heat, Iranian hard-liners are distancing themselves from the government’s fuel price hike. The government announced Nov. 15 an important decision affecting daily life in Iran: the rationing of gasoline and a subsequent increase in gas prices. Iranians have bitter memories of fuel price hikes. They consider it tantamount to a deterioration in their quality of life. Increases in gas prices have …

Al-Monitor – While the protests over gas prices in Iran have completely died down and the internet is back up, Iranians and some officials are attempting to put together the pieces of what happened after President Hassan Rouhani announced fuel subsidy cuts on Nov. 16. Government officials have not yet offered a tally of the number killed or arrested as a result of the protests. Members …

PayvandNews –A report shows Iranians are making heavy investments in the copper industry to make it more competitive at the global level. photo by Islamic Republic News Agency The IRNA agency said in a Sunday report that more than $3 billion will be invested in various copper industry projects across the country in the next five years, allowing the country to …

Radiofarda – The governor of Qal’eh Hassan Khan (Qods township) has claimed responsibility for ordering the Islamic Republic security forces to open fire on protesters who had invaded the governor’s building. Governor of Quds City in Tehran Province,Layla Vaseqi (C), 2019. Speaking to the government’s official daily, Iran on Sunday, December 1 Layla (Leila) Vaseqi admitted that the Islamic Revolution …

Radiofarda – As the reported death toll form protests in Iran climbs higher, bringing widespread recriminations, some officials appear to be trying to contain the anger by walking back their earlier harsh statements. Some opposition websites, such as Kalemeh, have reported that over 150 protesters shot dead have been buried in only one cemetery in Tehran. Other reports say over 100 bodies …

Radiofarda – The Syndicate of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTSBC) Workers has condemned the “massacre and bloody suppression” of people protesting a three-fold increase in gasoline prices. The labor union has also called for the trial of all involved in ordering and executing the widespread killing, wounding and the arrests of thousands of the protesters. There is no justification …

Al-Arabia – Civil Defense vehicles were seen rushing to the Iranian consulate in Najaf in southern Iraq to extinguish a fire ignited by protesters for the second time in less than a week, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent. Iraqi demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran’s consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on November 27, 2019. (AFP) …

Iran- HRM – Iranian regime’s Interior Minister ordered the broadcast of forced “confessions” by those arrested. Speaking to the state-run Channel One TV on November 26, the Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli insisted that those arrested should confess on TV to what they have done during the protests. Rahmani Fazli declared that people who had key roles in November protests are being …

Iran-HRM – Speaking at the Friday prayer congregation in Tehran, the prayer leader Ali Akbari demanded the death penalty for Iran protesters. In a part of his disgusting remarks Ali Akbari said on November 29: “We must take security issues more seriously than before, firmly and based on sharia laws. You know that God is very harsh against seditionists, those disrupting public …