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U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has defused all regional threats against the country, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, as tension rises ... Anti-government protests swept the country in December, with young working-class demonstrators asking for jobs and calling for more freedom.
Rudaw
March 20, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – After last year's youth-driven anti-government protests over economic woes, Iran's leaders in Newroz messages have ... national production is accelerated, many problems will be resolved,” said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, giving the new year the slogan 'Support for Iranian Products.
New Europe
March 19, 2018
According to AFP, on January 2, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called France's President Emmanuel Macron and asked him to take action against a Paris-based Iranian opposition, which he accused of fomenting protests that shook Iran in January. Mass anti-government protests started on 28Ãâà...
Sputnik International
March 17, 2018
Mashaei was First Vice President of Iran for one week in 2009 until Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered his resignation. ... In January, Iranian authorities have arrested former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly supporting anti-government protests in the country, media reported,Ãâà...
Voice of America
March 17, 2018
Republican Senator John Boozman and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin spoke to the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) on Thursday, as the ... In January, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Iran's “enemies” of provoking a week of nationwide anti-governmentÃâà...
The Washington Spectator (blog)
March 16, 2018
When scattered protests broke out in Iran at the end of December, Donald Trump took enthusiastically to Twitter to interpret the events for the rest of the .... Even Iranians I spoke to who self-defined as anti-government made it clear that they considered U.S. sanctions as a cruelly arbitrary form of humanÃâà...
The Hill
March 15, 2018
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said Thursday there have been no provocations from Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf in several months. Navy Cmdr. William ... The Trump administration also sided with anti-government protests in Iran late last year and early this year and pledged to support them.
Iran Focus
March 14, 2018
Since the uprising during last December and January, that began spontaneously in the holy city of Mashhad and quickly spread throughout the country, multiple Iranian cities have continued to witness new anti-government protests. Thousands of farmers in eastern Isfahan rallied on March 9 to protestÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 9, 2018
The channel described a "heavy crackdown" by police, and Iranians on social media reported large numbers of security officers in vans and motorcycles in central areas of Tehran. Iranian authorities have sought to quell any large demonstrations in recent months, following the anti-government protests thatÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 8, 2018
27, the first day of anti-government protests in Iran, for participating in the demonstrations. Social media users around the world began using the hashtag “#WhereIsShe” to protest the 31-year-old's arrest as concerns about her whereabouts increased. In January, Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who took onÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 8, 2018
The campaign started just before the New Year, as part of a larger anti-government protest, after a photo of a young woman, dressed in black and silently ... More than two months into the Iran uprising, the anti-hijab protests are still spreading, from Tehran to Mashhad, Esfahan and Shiraz, more picturesÃâà...
CNN
March 6, 2018
"Since we are artists, our language is our form of protest. We are hopeful that our videos can provide a voice for Iranian women," Samin told CNN. ... At least 33 people have been arrested for taking part in protests since late December, when a wave of anti-government demonstrations gave way to a publicÃâà...
Newsweek
February 27, 2018
RTX43VE2 A chart shows youth unemployment and population growth in Iran since 1956. Iranian authorities have struggled to address economic difficulties that spawned recent protests. Iranian Ministry of the Interior/Statistical Center of Iran/Reuters. Such anti-government groups have joined other IraniansÃâà...
Voice of America
February 26, 2018
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reacted to an upsurge in labor unrest by labeling it a plot backed by the country's enemies, echoing his response to anti-government protests last month. In recent weeks, Iranian workers protesting labor conditions have gone on strike at a steel-makingÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
February 19, 2018
February 19, 2018—The state crackdown that effectively crushed the protests that erupted across Iran in late December 2017 was marked by an unusually high degree of violence and ... “People came out to exercise their legitimate right to public protest,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of CHRI.
U.S. News & World Report
February 11, 2018
A man holds a poster of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally marking the 39th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. Iranians are on the streets marking the anniversary, just weeks after anti-government protests rocked cities across theÃâà...
