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Islamic Republic Detention Centres Poised to Re-enact Old Atrocities against Detained Protesters
The recent protests taking place in over one hundred cities across Iran is accompanied by daily arrests regarding which Islamic Republic regime refrains from…
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Iran Protests: What Lies Beneath
Now, the West as well as the Islamic regime in Iran are surprised by the speed with which the mass protests have spread across…
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Protests in Iran: the Revolt of the Peripheries
Since the first large protest erupted in Mashad, Iran more than a week ago it is safe to say that it is unlikely this…
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Defending the Sacred Regime in Iran with Baton Wielding School Kids
Iranian authorities appear to have once more fallen back on their old way of dealing with people’s protests.
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Iran: Running Under the Howling Bullets
The experience of the protests in Iran’s streets is very different from the reports we are getting in the state media. What is going…
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Protesters Rally across Iran against Rising Prices and Austerity Measures
On Friday, December-29, one day after protests stormed the city of Mashhad and several other cities in Khorasan Razavi province, demonstrators took to the…
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Tehran’s Notorious Former Prosecutor Sentenced to Jail
The appeal court has finally sentenced Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former prosecutor to two years in prison in connection with the Kahrizak Detention Center scandal…
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Powerful Earthquake Near Iran-Iraq Border Kills Hundreds
A powerful earthquake centered 30 km to the east of city of Halabja, near the Iran-Iraq border has killed more than 400 people, injuring…
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Iranians Drained by Empty Government Promises
One hundred days after being elected in 2013, Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, made an appearance on the state television claiming that he has…
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Yazd City Council will not Tolerate Suspension of Zoroastrian Member
The suspension of Sepanta Niknam, the Zoroastrian Yazd City Councillor by the Administrative Court of Justice has sparked outrage amongst his peers and the…
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Spike in Labor Protests in Iran is Changing the Political Milieu
The sharp increase in the number of labor protests in the past few months suggests that in the near future, the Iranian labor movement…
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Iranian Miners’ Call for Justice Echoes in Social Media
In December of 2015 miners of Agh Dareh gold mines staged a number of protests which earned many miners imprisonment, flogging and hefty fines.…