RFL/RE – An amateur video that has emerged on social media appears to show Iranian police officers beating a man, running over him with a motorcycle, and then firing at him. Police said they will investigate the video posted online on November 1. It is not known when the video was recorded. Some reports suggested that the footage was recorded …

RFL/RE – Protesters in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan have halted operations at a gold mine in the city of Taftan for a second time. The RasadBalochistan news site published photos and videos of people gathering in front of the mine, adding that the crowd had succeeding in shutting down the site. The Taftan gold mine is one of …

RFL/RE – Iranian professor Dariush Farhud, known as the “father of Iranian genetic science,” has confirmed he was forcibly kidnapped by unknown security agents and interrogated for more than a day before being released. The 84-year-old scientist told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that as he was leaving his house on the morning of October 30, two men wearing black …

RFL/RE – A mural of cartoon character Marge Simpson cutting her hair in solidarity with Iranian women has reappeared on a wall in front of Tehran’s consulate general in Milan less than a month after it was removed by “unknown agents.” Italian artist aleXsandro Palombo told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that the new work is called “The Cut 2” and was designed and …

Iranwire – The number of children killed in the fierce crackdown by Iranian security forces on nationwide protests has reached at least 48, IranWire reports, as a Norway-based human rights organization raised the overall death toll to at least 277. IranWire used various reliable sources to identify the children killed and publish their names, ages, and places of death. At least 18 …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested a professor of economics at Tehran University, the Payam-e-Eghtesad news website reports, amid continued strikes in academic institutions across the country. Security forces on Wednesday morning stormed Davood Sori’s house in the capital, confiscated his phone and laptop, and transferred him to the notorious Evin prison, it said. Sori’s reported arrest comes after several …

Iranwire – Over the past six weeks, the Islamic Republic has resorted to both soft and hard tactics to crack down on the nationwide unrest triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police. The Islamic Republic has dispatched riot police, Basij militiamen and plainclothesmen in its brutal crackdown against the protest movement in which …

Iranwire – At least 15 Iranian Kurds and one Iraqi Kurdish citizen were killed in a brutal crackdown by security forces on protests in western Kurdistan province last week, according to a human rights organization. Demonstrators flocked the streets across Iran on October 26 to mark the 40th day since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from Kurdistan province, died …

Iranwire – Nationwide protests continued across Iran for the 45th consecutive night on October 31, as the judiciary announced public trials would be held in Tehran for 1,000 people who have been arrested in a heavy-handed crackdown by security forces. Iran has for the past six weeks been rocked by protests of a scale and nature unprecedented since the 1979 …

VOA – U.S. officials expressed concern Tuesday about threats from Iran against Saudi Arabia. “We are in constant contact through military, diplomatic, intelligence channels with the Saudis, and we won’t hesitate to act in defense of our interests and our partners in the region,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. The Associated Press and Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday …