Deadly Iran jail fire erupted as police clashed with inmates, sources say. Two days before a fire ripped through a section of Iran’s Evin prison and killed at least eight people, a riot police unit arrived at the compound and began to patrol the corridors, shouting “God is Greatest” and banging batons on cell doors, […]
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Worry grows for Iran woman athlete who climbed without hijab
Worry grows for Iran woman athlete who climbed without hijab. An Iranian female competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation’s mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and […]
Iran vows ‘immediate’ response to new EU sanctions
Iran vows ‘immediate’ response to new EU sanctions. Iran vowed Monday an “immediate” response to the European Union as it prepares new sanctions on the Islamic republic after over a month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. EU foreign ministers met Monday to adopt sanctions on Iran, including on the morality police in whose […]
Iran protests: Gunfire at anti-hijab protestors in latest crackdown
Shots were heard in Isfahan amid the “nationwide protests and strikes”, Iran Human Rights (IHR) said of a video it tweeted, and in Saqez, according to the Kurdish rights group Hengaw, which reported that later “the security forces fled”. Gunshots were fired as Iranian security forces confronted protests Wednesday over Mahsa Amini’s death in a crackdown that […]
Iran sees ‘major’ internet disruption amid renewed protests
Iran sees ‘major’ internet disruption amid renewed protests. Iran suffered a “major disruption” in internet service Wednesday as calls for renewed protests again saw demonstrators on the streets weeks after the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country’s morality police, an advocacy group said. The demonstrations over the death of […]
Iran toughens crackdown as some oil workers reported to join protests
Iran toughens crackdown as some oil workers reported to join protests. Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on antigovernmental protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country’s vital energy sector. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdish region, died on Sept. 16 while […]
Iran’s supreme leader breaks silence on protests
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and accuse the U.S. and Israel of planning the protests. Khamenei said he was “heartbroken” by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s […]
Iran arrests Europeans accused of role in unrest
Iran, which has blamed “foreign enemies” for protests that swept the country after the death of a woman in morality police custody, said on Friday it had arrested nine European nationals for their role in the unrest. The detention of citizens of Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and other countries is likely to […]
Taliban fire into air to disperse women’s rally backing Iran protests
Taliban fire into air to disperse women’s rally. Taliban forces fired shots into the air on Thursday to disperse a women’s rally supporting protests in Iran over the death of a woman in the custody of morality police. Deadly protests have erupted in neighboring Iran for the past two weeks, following the death of 22-year-old […]
Iran’s anti-veil protests draw on long history of resistance
Iran’s anti-veil protests draw on long history of resistance. A young woman climbs to the top of a car in the middle of Mashhad, a conservative Iranian city famed for its Islamic shrines. She takes off her headscarf and starts chanting, “Death to the dictator!” Protesters nearby join in and cars honk in support. For […]