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RFL/RE – Iranian lawmakers have proposed banning student protesters from traveling abroad for 10 years as the Islamic republic struggles to suppress the biggest show of dissent in years. The Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said that in addition to members of parliament some “experts” played a role in the preparation of …

Iranwire – A colonel of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in a bomb explosion in Syria, the force says. The IRGC’s public relation department on November 23 blamed Israel for the killing of the officer, identified as Davoud Jafari. Jafari, a military adviser in Syria and a member of the IRGC’s aerospace arm, was killed in …

Iranwire – Ghazal Ranjkesh, a law student from Iran’s southern city of Bandar Abbas, is among dozens of Iranians who sustained severe eye trauma from metal pellets shot by security forces during nationwide protests. Ranjkesh says she was on her way home with her mother on November 15 when a police officer fired a metal bullet at her face at …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have fired indiscriminately at people during anti-government protests in a western Kurdish town, a teenager has said, amid reports that at least five were killed there earlier this week. “They fire directly at people, not just at protesters, but everyone,” a 14-year-old girl from Javanrood said in voice messages sent to IranWire. “We have a …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have killed more than 72 people over the past week, a Norway-based human rights group says, bringing to 416 its death toll related to a brutal state crackdown on more than two months of nationwide protests. Iran Human Rights on November 22 said that 56 of the new deaths were reported “in Kurdish areas,” where …