Al-Arabia – The UN human rights office on Friday voiced concern about Iran’s treatment of detained protesters and said that authorities were refusing to release some of the bodies of those killed. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last month has ignited protests in one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution. Rights groups …

Al-Arabia – Anti-government protests resumed in the Iranian city of Zahedan on Friday with demonstrators chanting against Iran’s supreme leader as the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody continued across Iran. Videos posted on social media by the activist group 1500tasvir showed protesters chanting “death to Khamenei” in reference to Iran’s highest authority, Supreme Leader …

RFL/RE – Mohammad Nayeb-Zehi was among the hundreds of worshippers who gathered on September 30 at the Great Mosalla, a religious site in Iran’s southeastern city of Zahedan, for Friday Prayers. Just hours later, the 16-year-old’s family learned he was dead. Nayeb-Zehi was among the scores of people gunned down by security forces in a brutal crackdown following anti-government protests …

RFL/RE – Permanent workers in Iran’s oil industry say they will join a strike announced by contract oil workers and will stop work on October 29 to protest the government’s crackdown on a wave of nationwide demonstrations following last month’s death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested for not wearing her hijab “properly.” The announced strike of petrochemical industry …

Iranwire – Iranian leaders are trying to link the ongoing wave of anti-government protests to this week’s deadly gun attack on a Shia shrine in the southern city of Shiraz. In a speech on Thursday, October 27, President Ibrahim Raisi alleged that the popular demonstrations against the Iranian regime allowed for the shooting at the Shahcheragh Shrine the previous day, …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, October 26, as thousands of protesters across Iran marked the 40th day since the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Morality Police, official news agencies reported a deadly “terrorist attack” on a Shia shrine in the southern city of Shiraz. The news broke after several prominent figures and media outlets close to the clerical regime warned …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have reportedly used violence against protesters who had gathered at a cemetery in the western province of Lorestan where Nika Shakarami’s family planned to hold a ceremony to mark the 40th day since the death of the teenage girl. An angry crowd gathered at the cemetery in the village of Veisian on Thursday, October 27, …

Iranwire – Thousands of people marked the 40th day since Mahsa Amini died while in custody of morality police, taking to the streets of Iranian cities and towns to express anger against the clerical regime. Meanwhile, 15 people were reported killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State extremist group. Demonstrations on Wednesday, October 26, rocked Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz, …

VOA – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Canadian counterpart expressed support Thursday for the demonstrators in Iran who have taken to the streets to protest the death of a young woman who died while in police custody after being arrested for wearing her headscarf “improperly.” Blinken said Thursday in Ottawa that he and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister …

VOA – The aging brick campus of the Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s elite technical school, has long been a magnet for the nation’s brightest minds, with a record of elevating its students to the highest reaches of society. Thousands of Sharif University alumni power Iran’s most sensitive industries, including nuclear energy and aerospace. One of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali …