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Iranian authorities round up celebrities as crackdown on protest continues

An international footballer and an influential blogger are among those arrested for criticising the ruling theocratic regime in Iran for a crackdown that has seen hundreds arrested in more than three weeks of deadly protests.

Radio France Internationale

Five French nationals are currently held in Iran - minister Colonna

There are now five French nationals being held in Iran, French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna told French radio on Tuesday, after France last week said it was looking to verify if a fifth French national had been held during protests in Iran.

Reuters

Iran’s Crackdown on Protests Intensifies in Kurdish Region

Iran intensified its crackdown Tuesday on Kurdish areas in the country's west as protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police rage on, activists said. Riot police fired into at least one neighborhood in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as Amnesty International…

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U-17 Women's World Cup: We don't talk about Ambrose episode, says Thomas Dennerby

BHUBANESWAR: The US and India are on very different levels as footballing nations, in the men's as well the women's game. But just like the hijab controversy and the ensuing protests in Iran, which the women in India can well identify with, the systemic abuse of young woman footballers in…

The Times of India

Iran Racing to Expand Enrichment at Underground Plant, IAEA Report Shows

Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz and now intends to go further than previously planned, a confidential UN nuclear watchdog report seen by Reuters showed on Monday. While indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Several' Inmates Dead in Iran Prison Riot

"Several" inmates died and others were injured during a prison riot in northern Iran, during which security forces used tear gas, a judicial official said on Monday. Sunday's riot in Rasht, provincial capital of Gilan, comes as a wave of unrest has rocked Iran since Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran racing to expand enrichment at underground plant

(This Oct. 10 story has been refiled to clarify last inspection mentioned in quarterly report was on Sept. 6 (not Aug. 31), and the third IR-6 cascade had come online then.)

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Iranian oil workers join protests as UK sanctions security forces

Fresh violence erupted in a Kurdish city in western Iran and reports emerged of oil workers joining nationwide protests that have spread since the death of a 22-year-old woman last month in the custody of the nation’s so-called morality police.

Tribune News Service

The Loop: Melbourne Airport delays, Volodymyr Zelenskyy updates Ukraine toll from Russian attack, and Iran crackdown intensifies — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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Iranian army chief threatens US and says 'day will come when these scores are settled'

As massive protests continue to grip Iran following the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini, one Iran military chief blamed the US. Iranian Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said the US is 'spreading despair

Daily Mirror

Anonymous artist turns Tehran fountains blood red in support of Mahsa Amini protesters

The red liquid in the fountains’ basins has been referred to as a protest artwork whose title roughly translates to 'Tehran sinking in blood'

Daily Mirror

Iraq Drought Displaces 1,200 Families in Parched South

Some 1,200 Iraqi families have been forced out of southern marshes and farmlands over the past six months, a local official told AFP, as drought ravages swathes of the country. The Mesopotamian Marshes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been battered by low rainfall and reduced flows in the Tigris…

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Fame No Shield from ‘Frightening’ Iran Arrest Wave

An international footballer, an influential tech-blogger, a woman who was merely eating her breakfast without a headscarf. In Iran no-one who expresses dissent from the ruling theocratic system, including the famous, is safe from being caught in the dragnet of a crackdown that has seen hundreds arrested in more than…

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Iran Returns Star Footballer Daei’s Passport Seized over Protests

Authorities in Iran have returned the passport of Ali Daei, the country's football legend confirmed to AFP on Monday, after confiscating it for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death. Iran has been gripped by nationwide demonstrations since the 22-year-old Kurdish woman's death was announced on September 16, three days after…

The Independent UK

‘Prepare for back-breaking strikes’: Iran energy workers take action as protests against regime widen

Videos showed workers chanting ‘death to the dictator’

Evening Standard

Iran protests: Mahsa Amini’s family being sent death threats, says relative

Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being detained for alleged violations of the country's strict dress code

Evening Standard

Holy Spider at the London Film Festival movie review: Compelling but ultimately too thin

Holy Spider wants to tell a bigger story but gets too bogged down in the trappings of the serial killer genre

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Reuters

Factbox-Death of young Iranian woman puts spotlight on morality police

Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned Iran's so-called morality police, saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they behave in public.

Daily Mirror

Mahsa Amini: UK sanctions Iran's 'morality police' after death of young woman in custody

The FCDO said it had sanctioned the morality police in its entirety, as well as both its chief, Mohammed Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, and the Head of the Tehran Division, Haj Ahmed Mirzaei

The Guardian - UK

‘The fire of our anger is still burning’: protesters in Iran speak out

Those taking to the streets say Mahsa Amini’s death has ignited a deep unrest that won’t end until the Islamic Republic is overthrown

Daily Mirror

Mahsa Amini's family say they are receiving death threats amid nationwide unrest

The 22-year-old's cousin said the threats that his family members had received have made them fear for their safety as they are warned not to take part in the demonstrations sparked by her death

Reuters

Factbox-Iran's minority Kurds in focus after woman's death in custody

Nationwide protests over the death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran's morality police have been at their most intense in the northwestern areas where the majority of the country's 10 million Kurds live.

Daily Mirror

England asked to boycott World Cup opener and "refuse to give Iran global stage"

Iranian women face “daily harassment, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment” and the recent death of Mahsa Amini has led to more than 130 protestors being killed - but FIFA have ignored campaigners' calls for expulsion

Bangkok Post

Iran intensifies crackdown in Kurdish cities as unrest persists

DUBAI: 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 a woman in morality police custody.

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