Iranwire – The manager of Iran’s national football team is under pressure to remove the team’s striker ahead of the World Cup in Qatar for voicing his support for the protesters, IranWire reports.  Carlos Queiroz has been under pressure from the Ministry of Sport to remove Sardar Azmoun, the team’s striker. The head of Iran’s football federation has also asked the …

IranWire – can report that security forces have arrested two Iranian Arab activists in the past week and transferred them to an unknown location. Heavily armed forces raided Ali Ghazi’s house in the southern Iranian city of Mulasani on Wednesday 9 November and violently arrested him, according to IranWire’s sources. No information is available about his whereabouts. Security forces have also confiscated his electronic …

VOA – Iran’s judiciary has charged more than 750 people in three provinces for participating in “recent riots”, local media reported, amid nationwide protests since the death of Mahsa Amini. More than 2,000 people had already been charged, nearly half of them in the capital Tehran, since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to judiciary figures. Dozens of people, mainly …

Iran-HRM – The trial of political prisoner Seyyed Javad Seyyedi was held at Branch 29 of Tehran Court, presided over by Judge Mazloum. The trial took place while Saeedeh Hosseinzadeh, the political prisoner’s lawyer, was not given permission to appear at the court. The charges brought against Seyyed Javad Seyyedi during this trial was “insulting Khamenei,” and “assembly and collusion …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – A protester has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, according to official reports. Evidence indicates that Islamic Republic authorities may be planning to carry out hasty executions. At least 20 protesters are currently facing charges punishable by death per official reports.  Iran Human Rights calls on the international community for urgent action before …

Al-Arabia – A jailed Iranian freedom of speech campaigner who is on a hunger strike and “in critical condition” will start refusing water after being denied medical leave, his brother said Saturday. Hossein Ronaghi, 37, was arrested days after speaking out against a bloody crackdown on protests that erupted across Iran in September over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. …

RFL/RE – An Iranian teenager sneaks up behind a cleric in the capital, Tehran, and knocks his turban off his head before dashing off. The incident, uploaded on social media, is part of a new tactic employed by anti-government demonstrators in Iran. #عمامه‌پرانی به‌دست یک نوجوان؛ در روزهای اخیر ویدئوهای بسیاری از این دست در شبکه‌های اجتماعی منتشر شده. بخش وسیعی …

VOA – French President Emmanuel Macron met a delegation of exiled Iranian rights activists on November 11, later hailing the female-led protest movement in the country as a “revolution.” Iran has for the last weeks been rocked by protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the morality police. The movement has turned into the …

VOA – Hundreds of Iranians took to the streets in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan Friday to mark the September 30 crackdown known as “Bloody Friday.”Videos sent to VOA’s Persian Service showed demonstrators marching in the provincial capital, Zahedan. Videos also showed demonstrators in the city of Khash chanting slogans such as “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to the dictator,” …

VOA – As anti-government protests continue across Iran, “freedom, justice and national government” has become a common slogan on the streets of Tabriz, Urmia and Ardabil, the three largest Azerbaijani-Turkish population centers in northwestern Iran. The demands quickly caught the attention of the country’s other non-Persian communities.Protesters early this month chanted the popular slogan as well as “sovereignty for nations,” …