Thursday , 28 March 2024

Social and Political

Hundreds of Iranians Protest in the Country’s Southeast

VOA – Hundreds of Iranians took to the streets in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan Friday to mark the September 30 crackdown known as “Bloody Friday.”Videos sent to VOA’s Persian Service showed demonstrators marching in the provincial capital, Zahedan. Videos also showed demonstrators in the city of Khash chanting slogans such as “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to the dictator,” …

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Azerbaijani Turks in Iran Demand ‘Freedom, Justice, National Government’

VOA – As anti-government protests continue across Iran, “freedom, justice and national government” has become a common slogan on the streets of Tabriz, Urmia and Ardabil, the three largest Azerbaijani-Turkish population centers in northwestern Iran. The demands quickly caught the attention of the country’s other non-Persian communities.Protesters early this month chanted the popular slogan as well as “sovereignty for nations,” …

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Iranian Protester’s Body Returned To Family In Exchange For His New Car

Iranwire – “After he was born on April 4, 1993, they named him after his uncle Esmail who was a martyr of the Iran-Iraq war [in the 1980s]. His uncle was killed on the frontline, and [Esmail] was killed on a pavement in Shiraz,” a source close to Esmail Shanbedi’s family tells IranWire. Esmail, 29, was seriously injured by security …

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Defense Against Plainclothesmen Is A Religious Duty, Iranian Ayatollah Rules

Iranwire – For the first time in the Islamic Republic’s more than four-decade history, a high-level Iranian Shia cleric has issued a fatwa, or Islamic decree, making it “mandatory” for Muslims to defend themselves or other Muslims against armed plainclothesmen. According to Shia religious jurisprudence (Fiqh), failing to undertake a “mandatory” action is a sin for Muslims, like refusing to …

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Britain Summons Iranian Diplomat Over “Serious Threats” To U.K. Journalists

Iranwire – British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in London following a series of “serious threats against journalists” living in the U.K. “I summoned the Iranian representative today to make clear that we do not tolerate threats to life and intimidation of any kind towards journalists, or any individual, living in the U.K.,” Foreign Secretary …

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Iran Protests: at Least 326 People Including 43 Children Killed

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 326 people including 43 children and 25 women have been killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests. Iran Human Rights calls on the international community once again to counter the killing of Iranian people with firm and timely action and reiterates the need to establish a mechanism to hold the Islamic …

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Iran: Stop Sentencing Peaceful Protesters to Death, Say UN Experts

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – UN experts issued a statement today urging Iranian authorities to stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests and reiterated their call to immediately release all protesters who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty for the sole reason of exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly and …

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With US elections over, new run at Iran nuclear deal is possible

Al-Monitor – With the US midterm elections over, don’t be surprised if Washington and Tehran make a final run to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. US President Joe Biden preferred to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the sidelines during the campaign. The administration’s priority has instead been how to support protesters in Iran, following the death in …

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Iran accuses West of helping protestors make weapons, Molotov cocktails

Al-Arabia – Iran’s top diplomat has accused Western countries of promoting violence in the Islamic republic by helping protesters to make weapons and Molotov cocktails. Street violence has flared across Iran since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, after her arrest for allegedly flouting the country’s hijab dress code for women. Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators …

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