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Iran's regime is cracking under protests, but a challenge remains to ensure the revolution isn't 'hijacked'

There are signs the Islamic Regime is beginning to crack under the weight of protests that have spread across the nation and the diaspora abroad, but Iranians say the real challenge will be ensuring the revolution is not hijacked.

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Iran slams France and shuts down cultural center over Charlie Hebdo’s Khamenei cartoons

Iran rebuked the French government and shut down a French cultural center in Tehran after the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a series of cartoons ridiculing the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Tribune News Service

Iran’s Revolutionary Year

Why Iran’s Gen Z is protesting, and why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps won’t back down. These articles explain Tehran’s difficult 2022.

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Germany suspends measures to promote business with Iran

Germany's government is suspending state measures designed to foster business with Iran due to the repression of nationwide protests in the Islamic Republic, the economy ministry said on Friday.

Reuters

Iran's clerical leaders to grapple with deepening dissent in 2023

Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large.

Reuters

Iran carries out second protest-related execution in its 'killing spree'

Iran carried out its second execution linked to the anti-government protests challenging the country’s theocracy on December 12. Our Observer, Hadi Ghaemi, who works as the Executive Director of the ‘Centre for Human Rights in Iran’, told us this “killing spree” to crush protests is likely to shift into “high…

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Iran carries out second execution linked to wave of popular protests

The Islamic Republic on Monday hanged a man in public who state media said had been convicted of killing two members of the security forces, the second execution in less than a week of people involved in protests against Iran's ruling theocracy.

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Iran protesters hold strikes even as state warns of executions

Businesses in some parts of Iran went on strike on Monday as part of anti-government protests, even as the Islamic Republic vowed to implement harsh sentences on people demonstrating, including the death penalty.

Tribune News Service

Masih Alinejad is fighting Iran's leaders and inspiring the country's women to rise up

Iran's government has tried to silence her and assassinate her twice, but Masih Alinejad has succeeded in inspiring Iranian women and breaking down one of the pillars that held up the Islamic Republic for 43 years.

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Iranian man shot dead by state forces after celebrating Iran's World Cup elimination, human rights group says

Iranian authorities have shot and killed a man celebrating the country's elimination from the 2022 World Cup, according to a human rights group, as the Islamic Republic intensifies attempts to quash dissent in the wake of Mahsa Amini's death in September.

ABC News

Iran players' families 'threatened with imprisonment and torture' before USA match

Iran's World Cup squad were allegedly brought to a meeting with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after refusing to sing their national anthem vs England

Daily Mirror

What will happen to the Iran World Cup team now?

Even before the World Cup, male athletes had been joining in the protests. But now they’ve done so at the foremost global tournament, and Iranian fans say they are worried for ‘Team Melli’ and what they might face on their return. Ari Honarvar reports

The Independent UK

Gregg Berhalter issues apology after USA's Iran flag tweet as Tyler Adams adds to problem

The official United States Twitter feed posted a picture of the Iranian flag without the emblem of the Islamic Republic included ahead of their clash at World Cup 2022

Daily Mirror

US soccer displays Iran flag minus Islamic Republic emblem

The U.S. men’s soccer team has begun displaying Iran’s national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic as nationwide protests challenging Tehran’s theocratic government continue

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Bobby Ghosh: Iran’s regime is already a big loser at the World Cup

There is a long tradition of authoritarian states using soccer’s World Cup to distract attention — domestic and foreign alike — from their tyranny. The Islamic Republic milked buckets of self-serving propaganda out of the national team’s participation in the quadrennial competition, never more than in 1998 when Iran beat…

The Independent UK

Top US diplomat in Qatar for soccer, talks amid Iran tension

America’s top diplomat has landed in Qatar to take in a World Cup match and hold talks as regional tensions remain high as Iran’s nuclear program rapidly advances and nationwide protests shake the Islamic Republic

Reuters

Iranians strike to mark 2019 protests in fresh rebuff to ruling clerics

Iranians went on strike in several cities on Tuesday to commemorate the 2019 protests over fuel prices, a display of dissent that was crushed by security forces in one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the history of the Islamic Republic.

The Independent UK

Macron vows tougher Iran sanctions amid protests crackdown

French President Emmanuel Macron says the West should step up sanctions against Iran by targeting officials behind the brutal crackdown on protesters demanding women’s rights in the Islamic Republic

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The veil in Iran has been an enduring symbol of patriarchal norms – but its use has changed depending on who is in power

In images of the uprising that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16, 2022, perhaps the most iconic ones, aside from that of Amini herself, are those of unveiled Iranian women photographed from behind, facing police barricades or raising a fist at the scene of mass protests.

Radio France Internationale

Two more French citizens held in Iran, bringing total to seven

Two more French citizens have been detained in Iran, bringing to seven the number of people from France held in the Islamic Republic, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Saturday.

Reuters

Soccer-Former FIFA head Blatter says Iran should be barred from World Cup

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic Republic sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police, a Swiss paper quoted him on Friday as saying.

Reuters

Iran's army issues warning to 'rioters' as security forces struggle to suppress unrest

Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander said on Wednesday that "rioters" would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Reuters

Iran's army says "rioters" will have no place in country if order given by supreme leader - Mehr

Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander Kiumars Heydari said on Wednesday that "rioters" would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, said the semi-official Mehr news agency.

The Independent UK

‘Listen to the people’: Cracks appear within Iran’s ruling elite over protest movement

Even some hardliners are acknowledging the demands of demonstrators

Reuters

Iran lawmakers demand severe punishment for 'rioters' as protests rage

Hardline Iranian lawmakers urged the judiciary on Sunday to "deal decisively" with perpetrators of unrest, as the Islamic Republic struggles to suppress the biggest show of dissent in years.

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