Social and Political

alarabiya – An influential Iranian cleric warned on Friday that Iran may target US-linked ‍investments in the region in retaliation for any US attack on the ‍Islamic Republic, Iranian news agencies reported. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States had an “armada” heading toward Iran but hoped he would not have to use it, as he renewed …

alarabiya – Mike Huckabee warned Iran that the US may take further action if Tehran does not change course, saying Iranian leaders have already seen that President Donald Trump follows through on his threats.Speaking in an exclusive interview with Counterpoints on Friday, Huckabee was asked about comments by Trump indicating that a US armada is heading toward Iran. While declining …

iranintl – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said democratic governments must raise the cost for Iran’s rulers to stay in power in an interview with Iranian activist Masih Alinejad. Machado said Iran and Venezuela were bound by deep cooperation between their rulers, even as people in both countries rise up against repression. “The Iranian people, the Venezuelan people, we …

iranintl -A wounded Iranian protester played dead inside a plastic body bag for three days to hide from security forces and heard what he believed to be fellow protestors being summarily executed, a rights group reported on Thursday. The IHRDC reported that the teenager, whose name it withheld for his safety, was held among bodies of slain protestors transferred to …

Iranwire – On a Friday evening in Tehran, a taxi driver in his mid-50s began recounting what he witnessed during the protests of Thursday, January 8. He was dressed in black, later explaining that he was mourning the death of a friend’s son who was killed during the unrest. “I don’t know what you do or why you’re in my …

Iranwire – Abolhassan Firouzabadi, former secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, said that shutting down the internet will soon become an ineffective tool. Speaking to the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), Firouzabadi said: “Unfortunately, internet shutdowns will soon become obsolete.” Iran has repeatedly used nationwide internet blackouts as a tool of repression. During the November 2019 protests, known as …

alarabiya – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Thursday warned Israel and the US against “miscalculations” in the wake of mass protests, saying the force had its “finger on the trigger.” US President Donald Trump has repeatedly left open the option of new military action against the Islamic Republic after Washington backed and joined Israel’s 12-day …

iranintl – Fragments of what has unfolded in Iran over the past two weeks are beginning to emerge from beneath a near-total internet blackout, revealing killings that have largely remained hidden from public view. Through sporadic messages, rare phone calls and accounts relayed to media outlets operating outside the country, details are surfacing of civilians shot during nationwide protests that …

iranintl – Iran’s foreign minister said the country was prepared to show no restraint in retaliating to any military attack and mocked Europe about its standoff with the United States over President Donald Trump’s push to control Greenland. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have flared in the wake of the deadliest crackdown on protests in the history of the Islamic …

Iranwire – Nowadays, whenever a fellow journalist asks my advice about obtaining a short-term visa to come here, I am reminded of an anecdote from Saʿdi of Shiraz (c. 1210–1292), the great Persian poet and prose writer of the 13th century. Saʿdi tells of a poet who went to the chief of thieves and offered him words of praise. The …