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Iranians Keep up Protests Over Mahsa Amini Death Despite Mounting Fatalities

DUBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Iranians kept up anti-government protests on Wednesday despite an increasingly deadly state crackdown, social media reports showed, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the demonstrations as "scattered riots" planned by Iran's...

Tehran Arrests Person Accused of Spying for Israel- Tasnim Cites Prosecutor

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A person "spying for the Zionist regime" was arrested on Tuesday in Iran's central city of Kerman by the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence services, the chief prosecutor of Kerman province told semi-official...
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Iran Protests Over Woman’s Death Persist Despite Crackdown

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Clashes between protesters and security forces persisted across Iran on Tuesday, with social media videos showing tanks being transported to Kurdish areas, which have been a focal point of the crackdown on protests...

Iranian Journalist Who Broke News on Mahsa Amini Pays Heavy Price

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each...
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Iran Protests Over Woman’s Death Persist Despite Crackdown, Oil Workers Strike

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Clashes between protesters and security forces continued across Iran on Tuesday, with social media videos showing tanks being transported to Kurdish areas which have been the focal point of a crackdown on protests...

Iran Executed More Than 500 People Since October 2021, Rights Group Says

By Kayhan Life Staff Iran executed 528 people by hanging between Oct. 10, 2021, and Oct. 7, 2022, an increase of 98 percent, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) annual report, which...

France Says New Citizen Held in Iran, EU Sanctions to Come

PARIS, Oct 11 (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Tuesday five of its nationals were being held in Iran and the European Union had agreed the technical aspects to impose sanctions on Tehran, which would come into...

Iran’s Morality Police Sanctioned by UK for ‘Repression of Women’

LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and the country's "so-called Morality Police", saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear...
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Iran Toughens Crackdown as Some Oil Workers Reported to Join Protests

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country's vital energy sector. https://twitter.com/AlirezaNader/status/1579434043573407746?cxt=HHwWhMDQlZ-5o-srAAAA https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1579417674815504384?cxt=HHwWgIDQtbqAnOsrAAAA Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a...

Iran Intensifies Crackdown in Kurdish Cities as Unrest Persists

DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, social media posts and videos showed, pressing efforts to quell unrest ignited by the death of...