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RFL/RE – More than 1,000 workers at the Bushehr and Damavand petrochemical plants have joined in protests in Iran as demonstrators angry over the death of a young woman detained over an alleged Islamic dress code violation continued to defy a violent crackdown on dissent. According to reports by RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, the oil workers blocked access roads and chanted slogans, such …

RFL/RE – Activists in Iran have disrupted a live state television broadcast by airing images and messages in support of continuing protests against the government and the country’s strict hijab law requiring women to wear head scarves. Islamic Republic TV footage of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meeting state officials was interrupted briefly on October 8 and replaced with images …

Iranwire – Schoolgirls have become the latest target of Iran’s security agencies in anti-government protests that entered the fourth week on Sunday. Security forces stormed girls’ schools in several cities on Sunday, reports indicate, and footage obtained by IranWire shows security forces arriving in vans, some without license plates, and checking students’ mobile phones for any sign that they had participated …

VOA — Growing up under a repressive system, Sharo, a 35-year-old university graduate, never thought she would hear words of open rebellion spoken out loud. Now she herself chants slogans like “Death to the Dictator!” with a fury she didn’t know she had, as she joins protests calling for the toppling of the country’s rulers. Sharo said that after three weeks …

VOA – Germany’s foreign minister is calling for European Union entry bans and asset freezes against those responsible for what she described as brutal repression against anti-government protesters in Iran. The most sustained protests in years against Iran’s theocracy are now in their fourth week. They erupted Sept. 17 after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who …