Al-Monitor – As anti-government unrest entered a seventh week in Iran, the commander of the country’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned protesters to go home.  “Today is the last day of the riots, stop taking to streets,” Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami declared at a funeral ceremony for victims of a terror attack in the city of Shiraz earlier this week.  …

RFL/RE – The commander of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Hossein Salami, warned protesters that October 29 would be their last day of taking to the streets. “Do not come to the streets! Today is the last day of the riots,” Salami was quoted as saying by state media.Iran has been gripped by protests triggered by the death of …

Iranwire – It has been more than 40 days since Mahsa Amini died in police custody, triggering nationwide unrest that led to a brutal crackdown by security forces. According to the latest figures released by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), more than 13,000 protesters and their supporters have been arrested. Their names have not been officially announced, and the …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces again clashed with protesters across Iran as new rallies calling for the downfall of the Islamic Republic spread across the country after Friday prayer. Videos obtained by IranWire show security forces shooting at protesters gathered around Makki Grand Mosque in the eastern city of Zahedan. One video purported to show a boy who was shot …

Iranwire – Iranian doctors and medical workers were planning to hold a protest rally on Wednesday, October 26, at the building housing Iran’s medical authority in Tehran, in a show of support for the nationwide protest movement that has rocked Iran for weeks. But the medics said the gates of the building remained closed, and a riot squad violently cracked …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Despite this escalation [Iran supplying suicide drones to Russia], the European Union would not admit that the Iranian regime was entrenched in the war on Ukraine: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wanted “proof”…. Iran’s regime, apparently even more emboldened, then began sending troops to Crimea to assist Russia in its attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian population …

VOA —The United States on Friday denounced Iranian leaders for allegedly blocking the burial of a journalist’s body, saying the clerical state showed a fear of journalists even posthumously. <img src="https://gdb.voanews.com/013b0000-0aff-0242-3d92-08dab9847a48_w1023_r1_s.jpg" alt="Reza Haghighatnejad, Iranian Journalist | Photo by Mir Wais Rasuli, ماني, CC BY-SA 4.0 Reza Haghighatnejad, who worked in exile for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Radio Farda, a U.S.-funded …

VOA – Reporters Without Borders, widely known as RSF, the French abbreviation of its name, said Friday it has filed a complaint with the United Nations about the arbitrary arrests of journalists in Iran and the attacks on reporters’ “freedom to inform.” The crackdown on journalists has come as demonstrations have sprung up across Iran following the arrest of a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 253 people, including 34 children and 19 women, have been killed in the ongoing nationwide protests. Repeating its call for urgent international action, Iran Human Rights reiterates that the longer the necessary United Nations-led steps take, the more lives are endangered. Iran Human Rights Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “There are no excuses for …

Al-Monitor – The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned an Iran-based foundation that maintains a multimillion-dollar bounty on Salman Rushdie, the British-American author attacked on stage in New York in August. In 1989, then-Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death over his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in his acclaimed novel “The Satanic Verses.” The …