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Hundreds of teachers have joined protests in more than 30 Iranian cities, demanding higher salaries and better labor conditions. Reports indicated that teachers protested in the capital, Tehran, as well as Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Rasht, Qom, and other cities around the country. The teachers reportedly criticized what they referred to as the government’s “indifference to education” while also calling for the release of …

RFL/RE – Iran has re-incarcerated French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah after she had spent more than a year under house arrest, the French Foreign Ministry said on January 12. Adelkhah, a researcher at the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies, was arrested in 2019 at Tehran airport and handed a five-year prison sentence in 2020 for conspiring against national security.It was …

RFL/RE – Four Israeli women who sent pictures and other information to an Iranian operative have been accused of spying for Iran, Israel’s domestic intelligence service said. The women, who were all Jewish immigrants from Iran according to local media, were indicted for “serious crimes” over the past month, Shin Bet said in a statement on January 12. The Iranian …

Iranwire – The head of the IRGC Aerospace Force has claimed that Hassan Rouhani was reprimanded in front of top generals during his tenure as president and warned not to “defame” the Revolutionary Guards. In a newly-published interview with the ultraconservative Kayhannewspaper, Amir Ali Hajizadeh described a behind-closed-doors meeting between Rouhani and IRGC commanders Mohammad Ali Jafari, Ghasem Soleimani, Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar and Ismail …

Iranwire – Recently, a video resurfaced and was shared by the BBC depicting former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani giving a speech. The subject is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the date of the recording unknown. In the video, Rafsanjani tells an assembled group of clerics that Khamenei had once told him he found leadership “suffocating”.  In fact, he says, Khamenei had told …