March 14, 2023

Pardons and Poison

Iran pardoned more than 82,600 people Monday, including tens of thousands who were arrested during the ongoing mass anti-government protests that have been the most serious challenge to the country’s ruling clerics since they took control during the 1979 revolution, Sky News reported. The pardoned individuals,...

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March 13, 2023

Making Up

Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations following Chinese-led negotiations, a landmark development that many analysts see as a de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East and Beijing’s increasing international role, CNBC reported. The two regional rivals made the announcement Friday following four days...

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March 02, 2023

Poisoning the Mind

Iranian authorities on Wednesday launched an investigation into the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls across the country, in what officials and human rights advocates believe to be a deliberate attack targeting girls’ education and “revenge” against the women-led protests in recent months, NBC News reported. Local...

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January 24, 2023

Steering Repression

The European Union approved new sanctions targeting Iranian officials alleged to be involved in the ongoing crackdown against anti-government protesters in the country – but stopped short of labeling Iran’s elite military branch as a “terrorist” organization, Al Jazeera reported Monday. The new sanctions will hit...

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January 03, 2023

Won’t Back Down

The Iranian government’s crackdown on free speech and the free flow of information has led protesters who are challenging the country’s Islamic clerics to smuggle Starlink satellite dishes into the country. Manufactured by a subdivision of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, the devices provide...

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December 14, 2022

Undeterred

Iran executed a 23-year-old man this week, the second execution related to the anti-government protests that have been sweeping the Islamic Republic for months, the BBC reported. Officials said Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged Monday in the city of Mashhad after a court convicted him of “enmity...

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December 06, 2022

Reality Dawning

Confusion over whether Iran has disbanded its “morality police” has grown as state media said a widely-reported quote from the country’s attorney general that the force had been “abolished” was misunderstood. Local media had reported that the country’s top lawyer Mohammad Jafar Montazeri had made the...

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November 15, 2022

Dying To Be Free

An Iranian court issued the first death sentence against a protester linked to the unrest that has gripped Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody two months ago, Axios reported Monday. The judiciary-linked Iranian website, Mizan Online, said the protester was sentenced...

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September 29, 2022

Take It Off

Big protests over little scarves are threatening to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran. In mid-September, Iran’s morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, 22, for allowing a few strands of hair to escape her scarf, violating laws Iranian officials say are necessary under their orthodox Islamic views....

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September 21, 2022

Lifting the Veil

Iranian authorities launched a violent crackdown on protesters demonstrating over the death of a 22-year-old woman who died in the custody of the country’s “morality police,” the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The newspaper reported that five protesters allegedly died after being fired upon by police. The unrest...

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August 05, 2022

Same Old, Same Old

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative former judge, won office a year ago promising change. But the same old problems continue to bedevil the country. The collapse of a luxury building in the southwest city of Abadan in May, a controversy involving an unfulfilled public grain...

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