Iran: the unspoken battle to succeed Ayatollah Khamenei
Sat 25 Jan 2020After the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, hardliners believe they have the upper hand
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Narges Mohammadi's message of condolences from inside Zanjan prison about the Ukrainian airplane crash
Tue 21 Jan 2020I’m sitting in loneliness in a corner in prison when I hear the news of the killing of 176 Iranians who were traveling on a Ukrainian plane. With pain and disbelief, I think of how their families must be feeling. Imagining the mourning of a people who are still grappling with the repression they faced by their government less than two months ago pains my heart. I tell myself that the plane crash is an incident and that people will bear the pain and tragedy together in solidarity. I, too, will mourn with them in my own
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Iran: Scores injured as security forces use unlawful force to crush protests
Mon 20 Jan 2020Verified video footage, photographs and testimonies from victims and eyewitnesses on the ground obtained by Amnesty International confirm that Iranian security forces used unlawful force against peaceful protesters who gathered across Iran following the authorities’ admission that they had shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane on 8 January.
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Amid Anti-Regime Protests, Iranians Repeatedly Refuse to Trample American, Israeli Flags
Sat 18 Jan 2020Video and photo evidence coming out of Iran shows multiple crowds refusing to walk on American and Israeli flags amid protests against the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment, signaling a rejection of the Tehran regime’s hardliner narrative and eliciting praise from some Western observers.
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Ukrainian plane, Iranian Brain and Canadian Pain
Sun 12 Jan 2020We must worry about the future of Iran if the Flight PS752 passengers constitute a representative sample of the brains Iran is losing.
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For many Iranian-American families, this moment has us sick and terrified
Fri 10 Jan 2020This isn’t just detached political analysis and smug Twitter takes to us. It is about a lifetime of experience and broken US foreign policy.
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Iranian Feminist Narges Mohammadi is in Danger
Fri 10 Jan 2020The situation in Iran was deteriorating even before Trump ordered the assassination of a top military commander, Qasem Soleimani.
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More Iranian journalists arrested, mistreated in prison
Thu 09 Jan 2020Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary arrests of four journalists in northern Iran on 26 December – which has brought the number of journalists held since the start of a wave of anti-government protests in mid-November to 12 – and the inhuman and degrading treatment of two prominent women journalists in Tehran’s Evin prison in the past two weeks.
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Opinion: Destroying cultural heritage sites is a war crime
Tue 07 Jan 2020President Trump threatened to destroy 52 Iranian sites — “some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture” — on Twitter on Saturday. This may seem like a small issue in the midst of an international crisis, but, as others have noted, his tweet amounts to an announcement of an intention to commit war crimes.
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Killing Sulaimani- How The Butcher of the People Became an Anti-Imperialist Hero
Sat 04 Jan 2020We live in a world where we often forget that multiple truths can co-exist at the same time. In an era of media conglomerates that regurgitate the same pro war slogans and headlines, and a time where the failures of the Left are stark and vast, the truth is often reduced to a simplistic, manichaean duality of black/white, either/or, US/Iran perspective.
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