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Iranwire – Almost forty days have passed, and the streets are still inflamed. The brutal suppression by the regime has meant the protests have divided into different “neighbourhoods”. However, parts of the capital are still surrounded by security forces. This can be seen on Enghelab Street, especially between the city theatre and Enghelab Square, Karimkhan Street, ValiAsr Square and Keshavarz Boulevard. If …

voanews – Berlin —  Some 80,000 people joined a Berlin rally Saturday in solidarity with women-led protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a police spokesman told AFP. “Today, thousands of people are showing their solidarity with courageous women and demonstrators in Iran,” tweeted Germany’s Green Party minister for family affairs, Lisa Paus. “We are …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today called on the Joseph R. Biden administration to spearhead the establishment of a United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry on Iran following weeks of brutal crackdowns, arrests, and killings of women peacefully protesting mandatory religious headscarf (hijab) laws. After Iran’s Morality Police killed 22 year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16 after …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The various parts if the repressive machine didn’t know what do. In the city of Sari, for example, they arrested 786 people in one day before they realized they had nowhere to keep them. Unlike supporters of the regime mostly of older generations, who gain self-esteem from bestowed but easily withdrawable privilege, the mostly young activists of horizontal …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today called on the Joseph R. Biden administration to spearhead the establishment of a United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry on Iran following weeks of brutal crackdowns, arrests, and killings of women peacefully protesting mandatory religious headscarf (hijab) laws. After Iran’s Morality Police killed 22 year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16 after …

Iranwire – The murder of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s morality police last month in Tehran sparked an unprecedented movement which is leading to the downfall of the corrupt and criminal regime of the ayatollahs. The brutal response of the security forces to the demonstrations, now in their fourth week, and causing many deaths, injuries and detentions, has nevertheless not weakened …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he Biden administration, even during the Iranian regime’s current brutal crackdown on its own citizens, and the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, are still seeking to revive the lethal “nuclear deal” — allowing the regime to enrich uranium to acquire an arsenal of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them — and reassuring the mullahs …

christianpost.com – Since the inception of the ruling regime in Iran, Iranian women have been at the forefront of a constant battle against religious tyranny. They were the first group that poured into the streets of Tehran en masse to protest against Khomeini’s imposition of the Hijab as a mandatory dress code for women in Iran. It was the Iranian …

Iranwire – The 2022 protests in Iran have fundamental differences with previous uprisings under the Islamic Republic. One is the fact that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is 83 years old and, unlike in 2009, he is no longer able to effectively deploy the forces of suppression. Iranians are aware of this and they know that he does not have much …

Nika Shakarami headed to Tehran’s central Keshavarz Boulevard on September 20 to join anti-government protests that broke out across the country after a young woman arrested for not wearing a mandatory headscarf died in police custody. After Nika posted an Instagram story showing her burning her own headscarf, she was never seen alive again. Now — like the 22-year-old Mahsa …