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Iranwire — On Saturday night (May 20) young people gathered in crowded bars in the Ukrainian capital, sharing jokes, stories and drinks, like on any other Saturday. However, two things were out of the ordinary: a curfew was imposed because of the war, so people had to be home by midnight, and an air raid siren rang out over the …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas canisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

Iranwire – The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran on May 13 and lodged a strong protest over the presence of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties at an official ceremony attended by high-ranking Iraqi officials. Two days earlier, the Iranian delegation, led by Iran’s consul-general in Erbil, capital of the Iraqi Kurdish region, left the opening ceremony for the Barzani National Museum, a …

VOA – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appointed a new head of the country’s top security body on Monday. State media said Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a Revolutionary Guards commander, would serve as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. Ahmadian replaces Ali Shamkhani, who served in the post for a decade and played a key role in thawing relations with regional …

VOA – Iran on Sunday summoned Switzerland’s ambassador over a tweet calling for a stop to executions linked to protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, Tehran’s foreign ministry said. The Swiss embassy took to Twitter on Friday to “strongly condemn” the execution earlier that day of three men convicted of killing security force members during last year’s protests …