As Trump Administration Expresses Support for Iran Protests, Nuclear Deal Deadline Looms
VOA -The Trump administration this week has not shied away from expressing support for the thousands of Iranians who have…
Iranian Security Forces Have Arrested More Than 40 University Students. These Are Their Names.
CHRI - Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families to Avoid Interviews More than 40 Iranian university students, mostly activists, were arrested between…
Iranian Protesters’ Relatives Threatened With Arrest For Holding Sit-In at Evin Prison
CHRI - “We will not go anywhere until we get some news about our kids.” The families of protesters detained…
Iran grapples with how to deal with protests
Al-Monitor - Roughly a week after protests began in several Iranian cities, the main challenge facing the establishment in Tehran is…
Iranian hard-line cleric supports protests, with a caveat
Al-Monitor - In response to the protests that have erupted in Iran, hard-line and conservative officialshave had to walk a fine…
Yara Shahidi Compares Iran Protests With Black Lives Matter: We’re All Interconnected
huffingtonpost - Comparing the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran to demonstrations in the U.S. like Black Lives Matter, actress and activist Yara Shahidi is…
Seeking answers for Iran’s chemical weapons victims—before time runs out
sciencemag - On a chilly morning in September 1987, in the waning days of the Iran-Iraq War, an 18-year-old Iranian…
UN Security Council Holds Emergency Meeting on Iran Unrest
VOA - The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the competing pro- and anti-government…
Mixed Messages? Iran’s State Broadcaster Uses Telegram — To Hail A Ban On Telegram
RFL/RE - Iranian authorities have blocked social media and messaging apps to foil would-be organizers and quell ongoing antigovernment protests.…
Iran tries to censor coverage of protests by media based abroad
AL-Arabia - In the background on the continuing protests across Iran, the Persian-language media based outside the country, have become…