Al-Monitor – Bullets, teargas, scuffles and business strikes brought many Iranian cities to a standstill on Saturday, as the country was rocked with another round of protests that began after the death of Mahsa Amini in hijab police custody last month. In the capital Tehran, key locations including streets leading to the traditional Grand Bazaar witnessed running battles. Protesters chanted slogans …

Al-Arabia – Schoolgirls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and street clashes erupted in Iran on Saturday, as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini entered a fourth week in defiance of a bloody crackdown. Anger flared over the death of the 22-year-old Iranian Kurd on September 16, three days after she was arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality …

Al-Arabia – The French government on Friday advised its nationals visiting Iran to “leave the country as soon as possible,” citing the risk of arbitrary detention. “All French visitors, including dual nationals, are exposed to a high risk of arrest, arbitrary detention and unfair trial,” the foreign ministry said on its website, adding “this risk also concerns people making a …

Al-Arabia – Canada announced Friday it will permanently deny entry to more than 10,000 members of Iran’s “murderous” regime, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that Ottawa blames for “heinous” acts against the Iranian people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would list Iran under “the most powerful provision” of Canada’s immigration and refugee act to make “over 10,000 (IRGC) officers and …

Nika Shakarami headed to Tehran’s central Keshavarz Boulevard on September 20 to join anti-government protests that broke out across the country after a young woman arrested for not wearing a mandatory headscarf died in police custody. After Nika posted an Instagram story showing her burning her own headscarf, she was never seen alive again. Now — like the 22-year-old Mahsa …

RFL/RE – More scattered protests and crackdown violence struck Iran on October 8 as demonstrators angry over the death of a young woman detained over the dress code continued to defy officials’ warnings of tough punishments to stem weeks of unrest. Videos posted on social media from trusted sources showed small protests in Tehran, Karaji just outside the capital, and …

Iranwire – Iranian intelligence agencies have continued to threaten the family of Masha Amini, three weeks after she lost her life following her arrest and beating by the morality police, IranWire can reveal. Efram Mortezaei, Mahsa’s cousin and a member of the Kurdistan Communist Party, said he had received telephone calls and messages from unidentified numbers, threatening the mourning family …

Iranwire – Three years ago, at the height of the bloody nationwide protests of November 2019 over the sudden and multifold increases in the prices of gas and fuel, Iranian state television aired a report in which a tearful man claimed that the protesters whom the government called “rioters” had set his house on fire, torching the dowry of his marriage-age daughter. …

Iranwire – On the twentieth night of nationwide protests, Iran’s chief of police denied that Mahsa Amini had been physically assaulted by police officers while in custody, while the US Treasury Department sanctioned seven senior officials of the Islamic Republic for their role in suppressing popular protests and blocking Iranians’ access to the internet since Mahsa’s Septembet 16 death. The …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “I am absolutely sincere in this regard when I say that Iran got much more than it could expect [from the Biden administration]….. [The Iranian leaders] are fighting for [their] national interest like lions. They fight for every comma, every word, and as a rule, quite successfully.” — Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s chief negotiator for the US in the …