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May 5, 2017

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In this post, Prince Reza Pahlavi commemorates the

In this post, Prince Reza Pahlavi commemorates the six-month anniversary of a violent crackdown in Iran, describing how protests on the 8th and 9th of January spread across cities like Tehran, Mashhad, and Kermanshah after a blackout, only to be met with lethal force from the regime that killed tens of thousands and led to mass arrests, torture, and death sentences. He speaks of personally mourning each victim as if they were his own family, visiting bereaved relatives regularly, and comparing the protesters’ courage—fighting without weapons or outside support, to resistance movements like those in occupied Europe and the American Revolution. He frames their deaths as a deliberate choice of a dignified death over continued oppression, and closes by urging the international community not to let diplomatic negotiations overshadow these sacrifices, expressing hope that Iran’s eventual freedom will bring regional stability, including the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to nuclear tensions.

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By Brendon Cole (Newsweek) July 6 - Mojtaba Khame

By Brendon Cole (Newsweek)
July 6 - Mojtaba Khamenei is believed to have been injured in the U.S. strikes and to be in hiding after being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father, although no state media reports have confirmed this.

“We have no clue about his physical or mental state, besides hearsay,” said @nazeninansari, managing editor of Kayhan London, a Persian-language digital newspaper based in London, and Kayhan Life, a daily English-language digital publication.

“His voice has not been heard nor his photo seen,” she told Newsweek, although she added, “there are rumors that Mojtaba Khamenei will appear on Thursday when his father is being buried in Mashad.”

The funeral ceremonies, which started on Saturday, will culminate in Khamenei’s burial on July 9 in the city of Mashhad, his birthplace, with a procession expected to pass through Iraq a day earlier, including the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.

Ansari, said that after nearly four months of uncertainty over the body of Ali Khamenei, none of the senior Shi’ite marja-e taqlid (the highest religious authority, known as the source of emulation) approved by the state performed the funeral prayer over his body as is customary, nor were they even present at the ceremony.

“The absence of leaders from various countries and the fact that some countries sent second- or third-tier representatives were significant and further signs of Ali Khamenei’s isolation,” Ansari told Newsweek. “The regime cannot conceal the truth of Khamenei’s isolation, and the international disgrace caused by his policies — from assassinations in Europe to bombings in the Middle East, from terrorist groups across the region to activities as far as the Horn of Africa,” Ansari added.

By Kayhan Life Staff April 9 - Ali Khamenei burial

By Kayhan Life Staff
April 9 - Ali Khamenei burial ceremony in Mashhad began today, under the shadow of U.S. bombings, at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite imam. The shrine, in northeastern Iran, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Shiite Islam and the only burial place of a Shiite imam in Iran. Its significance extends beyond Iran to Shiite communities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and across the wider region.

For Khamenei, the choice of burial site was deeply symbolic. He had admitted at the time of his selection that he lacked the religious credentials required to be accepted as a marja-e taqlid, or source of emulation, in Shiite Islam. Yet burial at Imam Reza’s shrine offered a posthumous elevation of his religious standing — one that, at least superficially, placed him in a sacred setting even more prominent than that of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. It also offered a practical advantage: a burial place shielded, by its religious importance, from possible U.S. or Israeli attack.

The funeral itself was elaborate, costly, symbolic and meticulously choreographed. It unfolded over six days, five cities and two countries. The procession moved from Tehran to Qom, then from Najaf to Karbala in Iraq, before ending in Mashhad.

The ceremony was meant to project power, reorganize the regime’s symbols and reaffirm the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic. Instead, it exposed deep divisions within the country’s political and religious structures, as well as the regime’s growing isolation at home and abroad.

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By Nayera Abdallah, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slatter

By Nayera Abdallah, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery
DUBAI/ANKARA, July 9 (Reuters) – Iranian armed forces targeted U.S. military infrastructure in neighboring Persian Gulf states on Thursday following U.S. strikes on Iran‘s southern coastal and eastern provinces, putting further strain on a three-week-old ceasefire agreement.

Iran was also preparing on Thursday to bury its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the country’s holiest shrine in Mashhad, in the northeast, the culmination of a week of mass funeral processions and rallies. Khamenei was killed in a U.S. airstrike on the first day of the war on February 28.

Oil prices, which had spiked amid concerns over the impact of the renewed attacks on global supplies, fell back on Thursday as investors weighed whether the flare-up was tactical and temporary or might augur a complete collapse in the ceasefire.

The U.S. military said on Wednesday its latest strikes on Iran were aimed at keeping the Strait of Hormuz open after Iran targeted three tankers in the area. The assault came hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed the interim ceasefire with Iran to be “over”.

July 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Command (CENTC

July 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday that its forces completed an additional round of strikes against Iran.

U.S. forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets, which included air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran‘s coastline, according to CENTCOM.

The U.S. Central Command had said earlier on Tuesday it completed a new round of strikes on Iran and that it had struck more than 80 targets during its latest attacks.

(Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Farzad Kohan is the Ovissi Foundation’s second 202

Farzad Kohan is the Ovissi Foundation’s second 2026 award winner. A sculptor who also paints, he explores love, migration, and identity, often using found objects and appropriated media. Persian language and scale run through his work — his piece “How Do You Title a Massacre?” uses Persian numerals to stand in for people, their overlapping and vanishing forms symbolizing how systems flatten individual lives.

Rather than depicting Iranian history directly, Farzad engages it through language, material, and personal experience. With the award, he’ll develop “Language as Evidence,” studying how language and numbering shape and record the experience of displacement and survival.

Jurors Ebrin Bagheri, Keyvan Fehri, Stephanie Moore, Reza Paykazadi, and Safoura Zoroofchi join the Foundation in congratulating him.

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