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Iran's Guards head warns protesters: 'Today is last day of riots'

The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in the clearest sign that security forces may intensify their already fierce crackdown on widespread unrest.

Reuters

IRGC Says Bomb Attack Foiled in Shiraz

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that its intelligence unit had foiled a bomb attack in the southern city of Shiraz, two days after a deadly shooting at a shrine there, the guards' news agency Sepah News said. "A bombing in Mo'ali Abad Street in Shiraz was detected and foiled…

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Iran Revolutionary Guards says bomb attack foiled in Shiraz - Sepah News

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Revolutionary Guards intelligence officer shot dead in western Iran - IRNA

One member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was shot dead "by rioters" in the western city of Malayer, according to the official IRNA news agency, on the fortieth day after the death of Mahsa Amini.

Reuters

Analysis-Iran crackdown may burnish Raisi's credentials for top job

By tightening curbs on women's rights, President Ebrahim Raisi has boosted his hardline credentials and possibly his prospects of becoming Iran's Supreme Leader, even at the cost of provoking mass protests and driving a wedge between many Iranians and the ruling elite, three analysts and a pro-reform official said.

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Tens of thousands march in Berlin in support of Iran protests

Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in a show of support for protesters in Iran where unrest ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody entered a sixth week despite a deadly state crackdown.

Reuters

Iran agrees to ship missiles, more drones to Russia, defying the West-sources

Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface to surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a move that is likely to infuriate the United States and other Western powers.

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Factbox-Ethnic groups swept up in Iran's nationwide protests

Protests in Iran have swept all parts of the nation since Mahsa Amini's death in police custody, including areas home to ethnic minorities with long-standing grievances against the state.

Reuters

Khamenei Warns against Attempts to 'Uproot' Ruling Regime in Iran

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday that no one should dare think they can uproot the ruling regime, in his toughest warning to protesters since Mahsa Amini's death in police custody ignited nationwide unrest now in its fourth week. Demonstrations by people from all walks of life, after…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran’s youthful protests stoke uncertainty among political elite

While some insist the unrest will eventually peter out, others warn there is something more fundamental at play

The Guardian - UK

Khamenei warns Islamic Republic is a 'mighty tree' that cannot be uprooted

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday said that no one should dare think they can uproot the Islamic Republic, in his toughest warning to protesters since Mahsa Amini's death in police custody ignited nationwide unrest now in its fourth week.

Reuters

Iran intensifies crackdown on Kurdish areas as protests rage

Iranian security forces stepped up their crackdown on Kurdish regions of the country overnight, deploying militia troops, as authorities pursued their deadly suppression of nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody.

Reuters

Iran arrests person spying for Israel- Tasnim cites prosecutor

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 Tasnim news agency.

Reuters

Emily Sheffield: We can hope for the young women of Iran, but hope is not enough

Who can watch the stirring videos circulating worldwide of the extraordinarily brave young female protesters in Iran, some of them schoolgirls, without fearing for their safety? The most recent clip shows teenagers in their school taking off their headscarves and angrily chanting “Get lost” to a visiting member of the…

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Iran Guards Commander Killed in Baluchistan Clashes

A senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was killed during clashes in the southeastern province of Baluchistan on Friday, an incident that further deepened the Iranian internal crisis in the third week of the outbreak of the “women’s uprising.” The regional governor told the state television that the violence…

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Tehran faces a season of dissent - and the Bank of England acts in the UK

In today’s newsletter: Extraordinary protests have lit up Iran after a Kurdish woman died in police custody. Chowra Makaremi walks us through what it all means – and if this could be how the country’s theocracy ends

Reuters

Timeline: Iranian unrest leading up to Mahsa Amini's death in police custody

The death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police has infuriated Iranians who have taken to the streets to protest in at least 50 cities and towns nationwide, with police using force to disperse demonstrations.

Reuters

Factbox-Iran's Basij force: specialists in cracking down on dissent

Iranian security forces, including the pro-government Basij militia, are trying to quell growing nationwide protests that erupted after a woman died in the custody of the morality police last week.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards call on judiciary to prosecute those who spread "false news" over woman's death- statement

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards called on the judiciary to prosecute "those who spread false news and rumors", in a statement published on Thursday as tensions mount over the death of a woman in police custody.

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Khamenei Makes Public Appearance after Absence, Amid Heated Debate on His Successor

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made a public appearance after over a week of absence and participated in a religious ceremony with university students on Saturday. Khamenei's official website published his pictures during the ceremony, and state television showed him standing, addressing the attendees in a steady voice about the…

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Iran’s Khamenei Under Strict Medical Observation

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been under strict medical observation after having cancelling several meetings last week, reported the New York Times according to four people familiar with his health situation. Khamenei, 83, had surgery sometime last week for bowel obstruction after suffering extreme stomach pains and high fever,…

Reuters

Iran makes arrests in Guards commander killing blamed on Israel -judiciary

Iranian authorities have arrested several people over the assassination of a Revolutionary Guards colonel in May that Tehran has blamed on Israel and its Western allies, judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Iran Guards seize foreign ship in Gulf for smuggling diesel

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 757,000 litres of diesel out of the country, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.

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Iranian Sites Cordoned off in Syria’s Hama after Israeli Raids

Iranian militias and Syrian regime security forces have cordoned off military sites used by the militias in western Hama and central Syria after they were targeted by Israeli raids on Thursday. The sites are the military camps of Sheikh Ghadban, al-Rasafa and Scientific Studies and Research Center near the Masyaf…

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Lapid: Nuclear Deal to Give Tehran $100Bln to Destabilize Region

A new nuclear deal between world powers and Iran would allow other nations to avoid sanctions and give Tehran $100 billion a year to destabilize the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday. “On the table right now is a bad deal. It would give Iran a…

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