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UN Nuclear Chief Says Iran Ties Need to Get Back on Track

VOA - Iran appears to be at odds with the United Nations nuclear watchdog about information it should be providing…

Iranians Mourn Man Killed During ‘Celebrations’ Following Iran’s World Cup Loss

VOA - Human rights groups report Iranians gathered Friday to mourn a man reportedly shot and killed by security forces…

Iran: 28 people risk execution in relation to uprising

Amnesty - At least 28 people, including three children, could face execution in connection with nationwide protests as the Iranian…

Women join protests in Iran’s restive southeast in ‘rare’ move: Rights group

Al-Arabia - Women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, in what a rights group called…

Iranian Sunni Cleric Urges Tehran To Listen To Protesters, Says “We are all Iranians”

Iranwire - Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric has again used his Friday sermon to urge the country’s Shia leadership to…

“You Are Impure”: Jailed Iranian Student Activist Abdipour Subjected To Violence, Denied Bail

Iranwire - Faizeh Abdipour, an Iranian university student and human rights activist who was detained last week for her involvement…

Iran Protest Crackdown: 5 ½-Year-Old Pellet Victim Loses Sight In One Eye

Iranwire - Benita Kiani Flavarjani was playing with her cousin in their grandfather's home in the central Iranian city of…

Iranian University Staff Want Banned Students Back To Class

Iranwire - More than 150 professors and other academic staff at an Iranian university are calling on the authorities to…

Biden’s Reaction to Unrest in China, Iran, Questioned by Critics

VOA - With major street protests erupting in Iran and China in recent weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is…

Iran’s Raisi downplays protests in visit to flashpoint Kurdish city

Al-Monitor - Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi described the public protests that have gripped his country since mid-September as "yet another disgraceful miscalculation" by "the enemy."…