Demonstrations are intensifying along main streets and at universities in cities across the country.
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Protests over woman’s death by Iran’s morality police reach 19 cities
The protests over the death of Mahsa Amini have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the country’s 2009 Green Movement.
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2 killed as demonstrations around Iran enter 4th week
The protests erupted Sept. 17, after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who had died in the custody of Iran’s feared morality police.
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Leonard Pitts: Let’s not be too smug about how Iran oppresses women
There is an understanding among men that women’s bodies are community property, ours to regulate, approve, criticize and use as we see fit.
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Iran summons UK envoy amid anti-government protests
The move comes amid violent unrest in Iran triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody.
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Pro-government rallies held in Iran amid mass protests
The pro-government demonstrators chanted against America and Israel, according to state media.
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Commentary: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power
The signal from Tehran is that enemies of the regime can be attacked anywhere, even in the U.S., even decades after the regime first put a target on their backs.
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Iran denies involvement in attack on Salman Rushdie but blames him
In 1989, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding the author’s death, and while Iran has not focused on Rushdie in recent years, the decree still stands.
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Iranian operative charged in plot to murder former U.S. official John Bolton
Prosecutors say the murder-for-hire scheme unfolded more than a year after the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force was killed in a targeted airstrike in Baghdad in January 2020.
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Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers in Persian Gulf as tensions rise over U.S. sanctions
The seizures by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard appear to be in retaliation aimed at the United States.