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VOA – President Joe Biden said Tuesday the U.S. plans to “impose further costs” this week on Iran for assaulting protesters demonstrating against the government for the death of a young woman held in custody by the country’s morality police for failing to properly cover her hair with a hijab. Biden, in a Twitter post, did not elaborate on what …

VOA – Iran has recently sent new military reinforcements to its western borders close to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and threatened to launch a cross-border ground invasion into Iraqi Kurdistan against Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official in Iraq who asked to remain anonymous told VOA. “Iran has gathered forces near Kurdistan Region and through a …

Baquer Namazi, a US citizen held in Iran on spying charges, has left the country, the country’s state news agency announced Wednesday.  The family’s lawyer, Jared Genser, confirmed his release by sharing a photo of him on the plane. Baquer #Namazi has finally left #Iran after 6.5 years as an illegal detainee! He will arrive in Muscat, Oman, and then will travel on to Abu Dhabi for urgent …

Iranwire – Iran’s soccer stars are used to the love and admiration of football fans throughout the country. But returning the love of the people has cost them dear. The one they called “the magician”, Ali Karimi, has had his properties confiscated by security forces and his statue torn down. “The monarch”, Ali Daei, has had his passport confiscated and is being prevented from …

Iranwire – Suppression order from the barracks; Decoding Ali Khamenei’s speech Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, spoke yesterday at a police academy in Tehran yesterday, October 3, after two weeks of unprecedented protest against the policies of the Islamic Republic sparked by the murder of Mahsa Amini on September 16. But what did he say? And …