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Iranwire- Iranian security forces have shot and killed a 19-year-old man outside the western Kurdish town of Baneh, near the Iraqi border, the activist HRANA news agency reported. It cited eyewitnesses as saying that Behzad Azizi was driving a car when he was hit by a bullet shot by Revolutionary Guards at a checkpoint. He later died in hospital. The …

Iranwire -The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to meet soon and pave the way for the re-opening of embassies under a Chinese-brokered deal to re-establish bilateral relations. Iran’s Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud of Saudi Arabia discussed the matter during a phone call to mark the occasion of the Muslim holy month of …

Iranwire – Five teenagers in Tehran have reportedly voiced contrition after posting a dance video on International Women’s Day that went viral on social media. The clip has inspired others across Iran – and abroad — to post similar videos with the same song, in an act of defiance toward a theocracy that does not allow women and girls to dance …

As the world is observing British-Iranian Vahid Beheshti’s hunger strike in front of UK’s Foreign Office reaching day 27 to ask the British government to proscribe the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) people should be aware of the seriousness of his actions. As a form of protesting injustice and performing a non-violent resistance, hunger strikes have been used throughout history …

Iranwire – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei used his speech marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year, to claim that the anti-government protests that have swept Iran for more than six months are part of a global conspiracy aimed at weakening the Islamic Republic. In a televised address on March 21 from the Imam Reza Shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, …