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Iranwire – In a powerful display of support for the women-led protest movement in Iran, 50 “art performance protesters” will march through central London on September 13 while holding 10 posters depicting Mahsa Amini. A bigger protest is scheduled three days later to mark the first anniversary of the 22-year-old woman’s death in police custody, which sparked monthslong anti-establishment protests …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has sentenced a Kurdish political prisoner to death on sedition charges, Kurdish human rights activists reported on September 8. The sentence against Yussef Ahmadi was handed down by the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on September 3, according to the Norway-based Hengaw group, which monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions. Ahmadi was arrested in …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have arrested two family members of protesters killed in 2022 and 2019, bringing to at least 21 the number of such arrests over the past month. Omid, the brother of Foad Qadimi, was arrested on September 8 in the city of Diwandareh, Kurdistan province.  Foad Qadimi was killed by security forces during last year’s nationwide …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Biden administration has been accused of secretly bypassing US laws to reach a deal with Iran’s Islamist regime. On August 10, the Biden administration apparently cut a “deal” excluding Congress and keeping the American people and U.S. regional allies in the dark — even though they are the ones who would be the most directly affected by …

VOA – Kian Derakhshan, who was badly injured in protests following the death of Mahsa Amini last September, told VOA he believes the Iranian people will ultimately prevail, ushering in a new era of freedom and democracy under the banner of “Women, Life, Freedom” in Iran. Amini, 22, died September 16, 2022, in the custody of Iran’s morality police, allegedly …