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Monthly Archives: December 2022

Iran looms large over Iraqi PM’s reform agenda

Al-Monitor — When Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani speaks about battling corruption, implementing long overdue economic reforms or getting an elusive oil law done with the Kurdistan Region, you get the sense that he means it. Sudani, 52, is a former human rights minister and mayor of Maysan province. When he was 10 years old, Saddam Hussein’s regime killed his father …

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UK sanctions 10 Iranians as part of global offensive

Al-Arabia – Britain on Friday announced wide-ranging sanctions against 30 targets worldwide, including officials in Iran accused of pursuing “egregious sentences” against anti-regime protesters. The sanctions against the 10 people connected to Iran’s judicial and prison systems came after the clerical regime’s first execution of one such protester, which has triggered global condemnation. “This includes six individuals linked to the …

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Raisi says Iran will pursue punishing protesters ‘with determination’

Al-Arabia – Iranian authorities will determinedly pursue punishing anti-regime protesters, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday, a day after Iran carried out its first death penalty over demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. Speaking at a meeting with families of members of the security forces who have been killed in the unrest, Raisi stressed that punishing “rioters” and those behind deaths of …

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Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters, medics say

theguardian – Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country. Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly …

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Iranian Shopkeepers Clash With Police Trying To Seal Shops Closed

RFL/RE – Following the call for three days of nationwide strikes in Iran, shopkeepers in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj have clashed with police forces who came to seal the strikers’ shops on December 8. Hengaw, a Norway-based group that monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions, reported that following the clashes, shopkeepers defied the move by authorities to keep their …

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“Mothers of Khavaran” Urge Iranian Regime To Stop Executions Of Protestors

Iranwire – An Iranian group that represents the relatives of people summarily executed by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s are demanding an immediate halt to death sentences, the unconditional release of all political prisoners. Mothers of Khavaran made the call in a statement on December 9, according to the activist HRANA news agency, a day after the Iranian authorities carried out …

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Anti-Regime Chants Echo In Eastern Iranian Province After Friday Prayer

Iranwire – Protesters in the eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan took to the streets after Friday prayer, calling for more freedoms, the release of all political prisoners and the downfall of the clerical regime. According to images published on social media on December 9, residents of the provincial capital, Zahedan, carried the Iranian three-color flag without the emblem of the …

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Tehran Protesters Outraged Over First Execution Linked To Unrest

Iranwire – Angry Iranians have taken to the streets of the Iranian capital to protest the first known execution connected to the demonstrations that have swept the country for more than 12 weeks. Mohsen Shekari was executed by hanging on December 8 for allegedly stabbing a member of the paramilitary Basij force at a September demonstration in the capital, state …

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Screams, Tear Gas Smoke And Curses: Scenes Of Violence In Central Tehran

Iranwire – At the entrance of Tehran’s Englebal metro station, several people are screaming; one is moaning in pain, another is cursing in loud voice and a third is shouting, “Don’t hit her, bastard, don’t hit her, let her go”. People trapped inside the station start yelling, “Let her go, let her go”. A tear gas canister falls among the …

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