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Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadership

theguardian – Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put online. The documents – including three speeches by Chinese president Xi Jinping in April 2014 – cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uyghur population. Some are marked top …

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Arab coalition targets IRGC site in Yemen’s Sanaa: Report

Al-Arabia – The Arab coalition fighting in Yemen said on Tuesday it launched air raids on “legitimate” Houthi military targets in the capital Sanaa including a “secret” site belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, state TV reported. The coalition asked civilians not to gather around or approach potential targets. The Iran-backed Houthis’ main broadcaster, Al Masirah TV, said three air …

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France’s Macron Urges Iran To Engage In ‘Constructive’ Nuclear Talks In Vienna

RFL/RE – French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, to engage in a “constructive manner” in ongoing international negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers.In telephone talks on November 29, Macron told Raisi that Paris’s objective is “to see Iran return to full respect for all of its …

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November 2019: The ‘Mourning Mothers’ Become ‘Mothers for Justice’

Iranwire – Two years have passed since the security forces of the Islamic Republic brutally suppressed peaceful protests by the Iranian people in November 2019, killing a reported 1500 citizens, according to Reuters. On the second anniversary of this massacre, the families of those who were murdered are now facing yet more pressure from the regime, which wants them to stop speaking …

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Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in Iran: A Review of State Narratives Since 1979

Iranwire – Jews have been living in Iran since Biblical times, after Cyrus the Great freed them from captivity in Babylon. But since the 1979 Islamic Revolution the Jewish population of Iran has dwindled to a fraction of its former size. Those Jews who have remained in Iran under the present rule by Shia clergy are attacked and harassed on …

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