Imprisonment in Iran of Swedish citizen Johan Floderus, employee of EU diplomatic corps, is revealed after 500+ days. Family “deeply worried & in despair”.
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Drawing on testimonies from 45 survivors, Amnesty International documents how Iran’s security forces rape and torture women’s rights protesters.
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Iran regime executes 127+ people, including women & juveniles, since 7 Oct. Many killed in secret without legal representation or notification of families.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and political prisoner Narges Mohammadi says Iran’s rise in executions is “disgrace to oppressive and authoritarian system”.
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Amid dozens of attacks by Iran-backed militias on US personnel stationed in Syria and Iraq, US and Israel carry out strikes on Iranian positions in Syria.
Read More Iran’s regime executed another participant in the “Woman. Life. Freedom” protests. Milad Zohrevand, 21, was hanged at dawn in a prison in Hamedan.
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Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi begins a hunger strike over compulsory hijab & restrictions on medical care for her and fellow prisoners.
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Iran’s regime loudly proclaims its support for deadly attacks by Gaza’s Hamas on Israel — but denies that it gave any approval for the assault in advance.
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Iran authorities condemn French national Louis Arnaud, who was traveling in the country as a tourist, to 5 years in prison on national security charges.
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Iran-led militias continue attacks on bases with American personnel, almost 2 weeks after US retaliated with strikes on Iranian positions in NE Syria.
Read More Armita Geravand, 16, has died almost four weeks after she was accosted by a “hijab enforcer” and collapsed on a train in a Tehran underground station.
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US sends messages to Iran to avoid wider conflict over Israel and Gaza. But will Ayatollah Khamenei, his Revolutionary Guards, and his officials heed them?
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Explaining why US carried out airstrikes on two Iranian targets in northeast Syria, and whether Iran’s regime will observe the line drawn by the attacks.
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Iran regime imposes long prison sentences on 2 women journalists who broke news of death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, which sparked nationwide protests
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Iran authorities finally free French-Iranian academic and researcher Fariba Adelkhah, more than four years after she was detained as a political prisoner.
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Iran’s authorities have stepped up threats, made for more than a decade, against BBC journalists. Reporters face violence, and relatives are being detained.
Read More Iranian activists say Armita Geravand, 16, is in a coma after a beating by one of Iran’s “hijab enforcers” for not wearing hijab in a Tehran metro station.
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Iran’s security forces fire on residents of Zahedan who gather to mark the anniversary of “Bloody Friday” — 4 children are among at least 23 injured.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader reportedly authorizes direct talks with US over Tehran’s nuclear program — but Washington wants Tehran to cooperate over inspections
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Evaluating latest cracks in Brexit Britain, significance of Mexico’s drug cartels, and Iran’s underground protests for rights, justice, and gender equality.
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Defying regime, Iran youth find different means to sustain movement for rights: “We may have quit street protests temporarily but we haven’t quit protests.”
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Evaluating inter-linked issues in Iran: release of 5 US-Iran political prisoners, nuclear talks, & year-long protests for rights, justice, & gender equality.
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Analyzing deal to free 5 US political prisoners in Iran, why it is unlikely to be breakthrough in nuclear talks, and why we shouldn’t forget Iran protests.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, has criticized Iran’s “disproportionate and unprecedented” barring of nuclear inspectors.
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Iranians are marking the anniversary of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman detained and beaten by “morality police”.
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Iran authorities continue arrests — including of family members of slain protesters — ahead of anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.
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Iran to free 5 US-Iranian political prisoners, in exchange for access to $6 billion for humanitarian purposes and return of several Iranians from US prisons
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Sensitive to examination of its foreign policy, Iran’s regime closes reformist daily newspaper Entekhab over 5-minute video critiquing recent initiatives.
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Iran’s authorities detain activists ahead of September 16 anniversary of death of 21-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, sparking nationwide protests.
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In a Syria where no one has “won”, headline is of possible Russia-Iran-US showdown. But that diverts from local story where Kurds could be biggest losers.
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