Protests have erupted across Iran after the Islamic fundamentalist state鈥檚 鈥渕orality police鈥 arrested and tortured to death Mahsa Amina, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, reports Peter Boyle.
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In Rojhelat, also known as Eastern Kurdistan, there has been a renewed push by Iran鈥檚 clerical regime to tie the Kurdish resistance to foreign powers, namely Israel, reports Marcel Cartier.
Members of the Iranian-Australian community are calling on Australia聽to support their struggle for justice for the more than 30,000 Iranian political prisoners聽who were massacred in 1988, writes Mohammad Sadeghpour.
A reporter recently told US President Donald Trump he had a moral responsibility to help Iran as it is hit by the new coronavirus. No mention was made about Venezuela. Why Iran and not Venezuela? Steve Ellner explains why.
IRANIAN authorities blocked internet access on January 14, with pressure continuing to mount on the theocratic regime as student protests calling for a new revolution swept the country.
According to the internet-tracking organisation NetBlocks, Iran experienced an outage at 5.25pm local time with 鈥渉igh impact to almost all providers鈥 for a duration of 10 minutes.
The government was previously accused of blocking the internet as security services moved against protesters during demonstrations in November.
The following statement, translated by Farhang Jahanpour, was issued by students taking part in a protest at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran on January 12. The protest followed the downing of Ukraine Flight 752 by Iranian Air Defence Unit anti-aircraft missiles on January 8 and violent attacks on protesters at the funeral of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in Iraq by the United States in a military strike on January 3.
Anti-war networks and progressive parties have urged the federal Coalition not to support the Donald Trump administration鈥檚 latest attack on Iran, that began with the illegal assassination in Iraq of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and deputy commander of the Iraqi government-affiliated Popular Mobilisation Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 3.
It took the popular uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon, following聽the earlier uprisings in Sudan and Algeria this year, for the Iranian masses,聽especially unemployed and student youth, to gain the courage to go out into the streets in large numbers again. For the first time since the December 2017鈥揓anuary 2018 uprising, they are mobilising to call for an end to the Islamic Republic.
Union leader Esmail Bakhshi, student and civil rights activist, Sepideh Gholian, and four activist journalists were sentenced to long prison sentences by the Iranian regime on September 7.
Remember when Donald Trump campaigned for office in 2016 on getting the United States out of 鈥渆ndless wars鈥? He did, in part, to distinguish himself from the pro-war Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton.
Now, Trump and his band of hawks are pushing for a new war, most likely with Iran.
The United States and Britain are ensuring that tensions remain high in the Straits of Hormuz as they continue beating the drums of war against Iran.
It is supposedly in our name that the PM would send Australians to kill and die in Iran. A war there would almost certainly result in a catastrophe that would compound and eclipse the regional destabilisation caused by the US and Australia during the invasion of Iraq and the ongoing war in Afghanistan, writes Hector Ramage.
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