gatestoneinstitute.org – “While the majority of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Parliament chants ‘Death to America’ & supports the Khamenei loyal police for their barbaric actions the leader of the free world (Joe Biden) is silent. Why?” — Iranian Americans for Liberty, Twitter, October 2, 2022. Nika Shakarami, a 17-year-old girl, was one of the many women who was arrested for burning …

VOA – Iran has once again rejected allegations that it has supplied Russia with weapons “to be used in the war in Ukraine”, its foreign ministry said Saturday. Kyiv and many of its Western allies have accused Moscow of using Iranian-made drones in attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks. The topic is expected to be discussed by European Union foreign …

VOA – Demonstrators are expected to take to streets across Iran again Saturday over Mahsa Amini despite internet cuts, as the protest movement sparked by outrage over her death in custody enters a fifth week. Amini’s death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by Iran’s notorious morality police, has fueled the biggest wave of street protests and …

VOA – An Iranian filmmaker said the Islamic republic barred him from travelling to the London Film Festival over his support for the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini that he called a “great moment in history.” “I was prevented by the Iranian authorities from boarding my flight to London on Friday,” Mani Haghighi said in a …

Iran-HRM – The test results of human bones found at Mount Deraak in Shiraz, was announced today, October 14, 2022. It has been approved that the pieces belong to the captured Iranian wrestler, Amin Bazrgar. The wrestler and a close friend of the slain Navid Afkari, Amin Bazrgar suddenly went missing in July 2020. From that date on no one had heard anything …

Al-Monitor – US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Oct. 12 that the nuclear talks are not the focus of US policy toward Iran, and that supporting the protesters is. Two days later, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Iranian activists about what more the US can do to support the protests, including internet access.  The take here all along has been, and remains, …

Al-Monitor – The Supreme Leader of Iran lashed out today at Iranians living in the United Kingdom.  “I once referred to the British Shia. Some falsely said what we mean by British Shia is the Shia living in England. No, we mean the people who follow the British in creating discord, the conflict-inciting Shia,” said Ayatollah Ali Khameini on Twitter.  Khameini added that …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today called on the Joseph R. Biden administration to spearhead the establishment of a United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry on Iran following weeks of brutal crackdowns, arrests, and killings of women peacefully protesting mandatory religious headscarf (hijab) laws. After Iran’s Morality Police killed 22 year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16 after …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s government on Friday condemned French President Emmanuel Macron for remarks in which he expressed solidarity with protesters angry over the death of Mahsa Amini. Macron’s remarks were “meddlesome” and served to encourage “violent people and law breakers,” foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.

Al-Arabia – Russian forces took Iranian instructors to the occupied Kherson and Crimea regions to launch Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, the Ukrainian National Resistance Center reported. The Iranian nationals reportedly teach Russian forces on using and monitoring the launch of the drones, according to information published on the Ukrainian armed forces-run website on Wednesday. The Iranians are based in the Russian-administered …