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Iranwire – Video Footage widely shared on social media shows dozens of people cheering as a flash of fire is sparked in a building said to be the ancestral home of the late founding father of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini. Activist network 1500Tasvir says the house in his birth town of Khomeini, south of Tehran, was torched by protesters …

Iranwire – The most prominent Sunni cleric in Iran has used his Friday sermon to tell the country’s Shia leadership that the Sunni Baluch minority “will not tolerate threats” and “will not compromise,” amid a fierce state crackdown on nationwide protests demanding more freedoms and women’s rights. “Nowhere in the world do they respond to people’s protests with bullets,” Molavi …

Iranwire – A picture of the body of a 9-year-old child, laying in ice at home instead of in a morgue over fear it could be abducted by security forces, showed the failure of the government and its media arm to scare the protesters. Kian Pirfalak was among the seven people killed after “unknown” gunmen opened fire at people during …

Iranwire – I have been deeply moved by the ongoing protests in Iran, and angered greatly by the violent response of Iran’s leaders. Not that you’d know it from my name, but I’m half English and half Iranian. My mother left Iran in the 1960’s, believing even then, long before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, that it was no place for …

VOA – Iran has accused foreign foes of trying to spark “civil war” by stoking the protests over Mahsa Amini’s death — harsh language that, analysts warn, could presage an even bloodier crackdown. Fears that Iran is sliding into deeper violence have grown since Wednesday, when assailants on motorcycles gunned down nine people — including a woman and two boys …