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VOA – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Canadian counterpart expressed support Thursday for the demonstrators in Iran who have taken to the streets to protest the death of a young woman who died while in police custody after being arrested for wearing her headscarf “improperly.” Blinken said Thursday in Ottawa that he and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister …

VOA – The aging brick campus of the Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s elite technical school, has long been a magnet for the nation’s brightest minds, with a record of elevating its students to the highest reaches of society. Thousands of Sharif University alumni power Iran’s most sensitive industries, including nuclear energy and aerospace. One of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali …

Iran-HRM – To mark the 40th day of Mahsa Amini’s death, protests continued in all Iranian cities. One of the protesting cities was Mahabad, a city in West Azerbaijan Province. Esmail Moloudi, a 35-year-old citizen who those close to him called Samko, was killed by direct shooting fired at him by the state security forces.Samko was married with one child. …

Amnesty – Responding to the unlawful killings of at least eight people since last night by Iran’s security forces as they again opened fire on mourners and protesters in at least four provinces and building on growing international calls for a UN mechanism on Iran, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “The Iranian authorities’ reckless and unlawful use of firearms against protesters, including live ammunition, reveals yet again the tragically high cost of international inaction. All member states of the UN Human Rights Council must take decisive action now …

Al-Monitor — Iranian riot police opened fire on a crowd of protesters outside the western city of Khorramabad as they marked 40 days since the death of teenage girl Nika Shakarami.   According to opposition media outlets and viral videos on social media, security forces shot bullets and tear gas at rock-throwing protesters at the cemetery, but it was not immediately clear if there had …