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RFL/RE – The Iranian Teachers’ Unions Coordination Council has called for a new round of street protests to demand higher wages and the immediate release of detained teachers from previous demonstrations as unrest in Iran continues to spread.The council said in a statement on June 9 that teachers across Iran should hold a protest rally on June 17 after four teachers were …

RFL/RE – At least two people have been killed and several others injured after a three-story building in Iran collapsed, just 17 days after a similar accident took at least 43 lives.The ILNA news agency quoted the spokesman of the country’s emergency organization as saying on June 9 that four of those rescued from the rubble of the building, which is located …

Iranwire – The Canadian government advised its citizens on June 9 to refrain from traveling to Iran due to the security situation, the threat of terrorist actions in certain areas and the danger of arbitrary detention. The warning was posted on a government website after Canada informed Iran of a decision by the province of Ontario’s Supreme Court calling the …

Iranwire – The mother of Babak Khorramdin, a filmmaker whose grisly murder sent shockwaves through Iran last year, has been sentenced to just 3.75 years in prison after admitting to helping her husband kill and dimember their son. Iran Mousavi Sani, 75, and her husband Akbar Khorramdin, 81, admitted to killing their 47-year-old son last May after parts of his body were …

CHRI – Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests *This report is embargoed until it is published on June 14, 8am EST June 9, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far on the killings and mass arrests of protesters in Iran by state security forces over the last month—the latest in a long line of lethal state responses to dissent in Iran—reflects …