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Guardian – The wave of anti-government protests in Iran at the end of December began in one of the country’s conservative strongholds: its second city, Mashhad. Site of the huge Imam Reza shrine that draws more than 20 million Shia pilgrims a year, the city’s population has ballooned to around 3 million in recent years. After a proposed modernisation of …

Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, hi with respect. I want to say that I Ahmadreza Djalali during 21 months in prison have had many problems that are cause by the agents of the secret service of Iran, that in the begining started with them creating acusations towards me and then by the means of manipulation and pressure managed to not only concieve …

CHRI -Two day after a former senior British politician expressed optimism after discussing the case of imprisoned Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with Iranian officials, the Tehran Province prosecutor denied she would soon be released. “Nazanin Zaghari is serving her prison sentence and there’s no discussion about freeing her,” Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told the semi-official Jamaran news agency on January 12, …

CHRI – New Report Details Growing State Ability to Block, Censor and Monitor the Internet in Iran January 10, 2018—The recent unrest in Iran—during which the authorities disrupted Iranians’ access to the internet and blocked major social media networks used by the protesters—demonstrates that the Iranian government’s decade-long effort to control the internet in Iran is being realized. In a …

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 urging Americans to consider just how interconnected the situation in Iran is to the U.S. experience.

sciencemag – On a chilly morning in September 1987, in the waning days of the Iran-Iraq War, an 18-year-old Iranian soldier named Seyed Naser Emadi drove from a battlefield in northwestern Iran to a hospital in Nagadeh, a city a couple hours away. Crammed in the back of his Land Rover were four soldiers, moaning, vomiting, and coughing. “I’ll never …

VOA – U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday that the world must not be silent in the face of political protests against the Iranian government and must help ‘amplify’ the protesters’ voices. VOA Correspondent Margaret Besheer has more from the United Nations. Watch Video https://www.voanews.com/a/4190138.html    

Al-Arabia – A video was widely shared on social media on Tuesday allegedly showing security forces shooting at protesters in Iran, while their bodies get dragged away from the gunfire.

Al-Arabia – A video of a woman chanting slogans against the generation that overthrew the shah’s regime in the 1979 Iranian revolution has been widely shared on social networks by Iranian activists.

Al-Arabia- A video has surfaced on social media showing a member of the Basij force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps falling into the hands of demonstrators in the city of Kermanshah after being attacked with a taser.