Al-Arabia – Iran’s top diplomat has accused Western countries of promoting violence in the Islamic republic by helping protesters to make weapons and Molotov cocktails. Street violence has flared across Iran since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, after her arrest for allegedly flouting the country’s hijab dress code for women. Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators …

RFL/RE – Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic republic sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police, a Swiss paper quoted him on November 11 as saying. “Iran should be excluded from the World Cup,” the Blick tabloid reported, saying Blatter …

IAEA – Iran has agreed to a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency this month to provide answers the U.N. watchdog and its 35-nation board have long called for on the origin of uranium particles found at three sites, an IAEA report on Thursday seen by Reuters said. Iran has yet to provide new material, however, and its offer …

RFL/RE – An Iranian general claimed on November 10 that the Islamic republic had developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating “all defense systems,” raising concerns from the UN nuclear watchdog. The announcement comes after Iran admitted last week it had sent drones to Russia but said it had done so before the Ukraine war. The head of the International …

newsweek.com – After numerous calls for harsh punishments in recent days, the Iranian parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the death penalty for protesters. Iran has been experiencing unprecedented levels of protests and civil unrest since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested by the country’s “morality police” for supposedly wearing an “improper” form of …

Iranwire – At least three female students were reportedly wounded by rubber bullets when security forces cracked down on an anti-government protest in the Iranian city of Kerman. Protesting students were gathered in the streets around a dormitory of the Kerman University of Medical Sciences on November 11 when the rally turned violent, the United Students Telegram channel reported. A …

Iranwire – In the 1990s, the so-called principalists and associates of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei controlled few media outlets besides the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). But by the early 2000s, they founded several newspapers and news agencies while reformist papers were being suspended. And, in the 2010s, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its affiliates established …

Iranwire – Iranian state media have published the photos, names and addresses of nine exiled reporters who are set to cover the 2022 World Cup starting later this month in Qatar, warning them it would be their “last supper.” The named journalists are living abroad and are working for the BBC Persian Service, Iran International and Manoto, three London-based Persian-language …

Iranwire – Nearly 30 years after a 1994 attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed 85 people and injured hundreds, no one has been brought to trial yet. Argentine courts have blamed the attack on Iran, which denies any role in the bombing, and Argentina’s repeated calls on other countries to detain those accused of involvement have …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have arrested a woman accused of being an “agent” of the London-based television broadcaster and of fomenting the current wave of protests, local media reported on November 10, amid a state crackdown on a nationwide wave of protests. Persian-language Iran International TV tweeted that the woman, Elham Afkari, never “worked for or collaborated” with the …