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"Don't see deep support for Reza Pahlavi in Iran": Middle East expert says
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
"I haven't seen any reports or credible reports or polls that would be able to put the number at any place. I can tell you anecdotally that on the one hand, in the diaspora, there has been a massive social media manipulation conducted by the Israelis. This is reported by Haaretz in order
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Iran condemns UN's report on protest crackdown, calls it "false and biased
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Iran has condemned the United Nations report stating that Iran's violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations, many amounting to crimes against humanity, reported Al Jazeera.
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Polling begins in Iran for parliamentary and religious leaders
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Voting is underway in Iran for the 12th term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) and the 6th term of the Assembly of Leadership Experts.
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Iran executes man for killing policeman in 2022 nationwide protests linked
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Iran has executed a man who ran over and killed a police officer and injured five others during countrywide protests in 2022 in Tehran, according to Al Jazeera.
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Rapper Toomaj Salehi arrested in Iran
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
A previously detained Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi has been rearrested in northern Iran on Thursday, less than two weeks after his release from prison, according to CNN citing his official social media channel.
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Iran 'secretly executes' man convicted of killing a Revolutionary Guards o
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Iran secretly executed a man on Thursday after convicting him of killing a member of the security forces amidst mass protests that swept the country last year.
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Iran sentences two women journalists to prison
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Two Iranian women journalists have been given preliminary prison sentences for national security charges on cases related to the Mahsa Amini protests, reported Al Jazeera.
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Nobel Peace Prize: Know who is Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian activist jail
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Mohammadi (51), who has been a defiant voice for women's rights in Iran, has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison and has been banned from seeing her husband and children.
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Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
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Protests erupt across Iran on death anniversary of Mahsa Amini
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
rotests broke out across Iran to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who passed away while being held by Iran's morality police after being detained for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly in September last year, reported CNN.
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On Mahsa Amini's death anniversary, her father detained by Iranian authori
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Even as Saturday marked the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a progressive Iranian woman who stood up against the draconian Hijab rule and whose alleged custodial death sparked furious protests, the Iranian authorities detained her father, CNN reported citing Iranian jo
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US imposes more sanctions on Iran on Mahsa Amini's death anniversary
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
More than 20 Iranian individuals and entities connected to the harsh repression of protests after Mahsa Amini's death one year ago were subject to penalties by the Joe Biden administration on Friday, reported CNN.
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