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Monthly Archives: November 2022

Tensions simmer as Azerbaijan-Turkey alliance unsettles Iran

Al-Monitor – Tensions are rising between Iran and Azerbaijan over Baku’s plans for a land connection to its exclave of Nakhchivan via Armenian territory, threatening to undermine Turkish-Iranian ties as well. The wrangling between Tehran and Baku has escalated since Iran held military exercises on its border with Azerbaijan last month, including drills on crossing the Aras River, which forms part of …

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Iran begins linking electricity with Russia

Al-Monitor – Iran has begun the process of linking its electricity grid to Russia’s.  Iranian Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian said Sunday that Iran completed an “initial synchronization” between its power grid and those of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.  Synchronization refers to the process by which electrical systems’ frequencies …

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Iran says taking retaliatory measures for IAEA resolution

Al-Arabia – Iran has said it is taking retaliatory measures against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over a resolution criticizing Tehran’s lack of cooperation with the nuclear watchdog. The United States, Britain, France and Germany had on Thursday brought the motion adopted by the UN agency – the second of its kind within six months. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman …

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UK will keep defending Ukraine, sanction Iranians supplying drones to Russia: FM

Al-Arabia – Britain will continue to help Ukraine defend itself in its war against Russia and sanction Iranian individuals and companies who have been supplying drones to Russia, the United Kingdom’s foreign minister James Cleverly told Al Arabiya in an exclusive interview. Cleverly said the UK will sanction “Iranian individuals and companies who have been supplying attack drones to Russia, …

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Iran Arrests Two Top Actors Who Removed Head Scarves

RFL/RE – Iran has arrested two prominent actors who expressed solidarity with the protest movement and removed their head scarves in public in an apparent act of defiance against the regime, state media reported on November 20. Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi were both detained after being summoned by prosecutors in a probe into their “provocative” social media posts and …

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Continue to Target Kurdish Opposition in Iraq

Iranwire – Iran’s hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) once again targeted the headquarters of “dissident groups” in Iraqi Kurdistan, state media reported on Monday. The Iranian government has targeted Iranian Kurdish militant opposition bases in Iraq’s Kurdish region since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, on September 16, who was beaten and died in morality police custody after being …

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Will Iran’s Politically Exposed World Cup Team Stay On-Side?

Iranwire – Iran’s national team, or “Team Melli”, has qualified for the World Cup for the sixth time. Going to the tournament has always been celebrated and for 30 years has been a source of pride for the Iranian people. Even people with no interest in football would follow Iran’s progress at the World Cup and cheer on the side. But this time, …

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“I’m With Iranian People:” Actress Arrested After Posting Video Without Hijab

Iranwire – Iranian actress Hengameh Ghaziani has been arrested after publishing a video of herself in which she appeared in a street of Tehran without the mandatory headscarf. In an act of defiance showing the broadening support for anti-government protests that have convulsed Iran for more than two months, Ghaziani shared the video on Instagram along with the caption: “This …

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Iran’s Khamenei Green Lights Further Repression, Eight Weeks Into Protests

Iranwire – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei this week delivered his eighth speech since the nationwide protests started in mid-September following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police. In his first comments about the protests, made before a group of military commanders at a military base in Tehran, Khamenei promised that the protests would soon end. Two months …

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Political prisoner Yashar Tohidi denied medical care in Evin Prison

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Yashar Tohidi was injured by a gunshot on the night of Saturday, October 15, 2022, in Evin Prison. The state agents had opened fire and attacked prisoners during a violent raid. Despite Mr. Tohidi’s deteriorating physical condition, he is deprived of appropriate medical care. Political prisoner Yashar Tohidi took 3-gun shots to his thigh during the …

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