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News and stories from the heart of #Iran.
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"Curiosity and dialogue prevented a civil war” says Roelf Meyer, a South African apartheid-era politician who became key to transition and served in Nelson Mandela's government, on his country’s peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy. What lessons can the rest of the
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EXCLUSIVE: a female Iranian athlete who did not wear a hijab at an international competition will be directly transferred to Evin prison from the airport, IranWire can reveal. #Iran #Truth #Mahsa_Aminiمهساامینی #MahsaAmini #hijab.
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On Friday, December 29, Iranians across the country protested against their government’s economic and foreign policies. This video, filmed by citizen journalists, is a review of a day that shocked Iran.
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10 Iranian teenagers under the age of 18 will be tried before the Revolutionary Court, which has no jurisdiction to hear criminal cases against minors. #truth #IranProtests2022 #children #IranRevoIution2022.
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“What is happening today in Iran is unacceptable for us, Italy can no longer tolerate it” — Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni. #truth #Mahsa_Amini #IranianWomen.
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🎞️ Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning film "The Salesman”, was released on bail after spending almost three weeks behind bars for supporting the anti-government protest movement. #truth #IranRevoIution #IranProtests
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A source close to Khamenei's office says Raisi is dead, and the government is working on a press release. @IranWireEnglish and @iranwire cannot independently verify the news.
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Protesters in the capital #Tehran took down a poster of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, chanting “Death to You!"
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Kian Pirfalak's mother, Mahmonir Molaei, has been under house arrest since Sunday, June 11, IranWire reveals — security forces have surrounded the house and seized all their household belongings. #truth #KianPirfalak #IranRevoIution #Iran.
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An X-ray of a victim hit by dozens of pellets, twenty hitting his head. Our report “Blinding as a Weapon” in #Iran shows foreign bodies like pellets can cause a range of problems for victims, even if they don’t penetrate the eyeball: #truth #IranProtests
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🎞️ “Nothing is worse than a child becoming your life. and then to witness his death” — Mahmonir Zeinab Molaei-Rad, mother of 9-year old #KianPirfalak, killed by #Iran's security forces in Nov2022. Watch full exclusive interview: #truth #IranRevolution
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BREAKING NEWS: security forces have arrested the family of #PouyaBakhtiari who was killed during the protests. His family asked all #Iranians to join them to commemorate their son on December 26. Picture of Pouya with his father Manouchehr, 2018. #IranProtests
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#Iranian "Handmaids" have reached the Iranian embassy in London. They've thrown their handmaid uniforms on the ground and chanted: Woman, Life, Freedom! .#InternationalWomensDay #IranianWomen #IranRevolution2023 .@NazaninBoniadi @AlinejadMasih @morningmika
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The woman known as “Sara,” the football fan who set herself on fire in protest against her arrest and treatment by the judiciary, has died. “She died three days ago but they did not give her body to the family,” a family member told IranWire. #IranWire.
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Iranians are angry that Western media is ignoring the #IranProtests & the govt's murder of protesters. Stories about a US congressman farting on tv & Prince Andrew have received more coverage. Iranians want to know: how many must be killed to be newsworthy?
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#Iranian #HumanRights lawyer #NasrinSotoudeh, who’s defended activists and minorities for 20 years, has been sentenced to 38 years in #jail & 148 #lashes. Sotoudeh says her trial (for espionage, propaganda & insulting the Supreme Leader) was illegitimate and refused to take part
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Angry crowds in #Paveh, west #Iran pulled down the Islamic Republic flag in protest at the murder of #MahsaAmini .#IranProtests #IranProtests2022 #Mahsa_Amini
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🎞️ #Shiraz University students continue to protest despite several arrests and attacks by the security forces. They call the police and paramilitary Basij members “Bi Sharaf” or Worthless and Undignified in Persian. #Iran #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #MahsaAmini
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Angels Over Berlin. (by @ManaNeyestani ) #IranRevoIution2022 #Iran #IranProtests2022 #Mahsa_Amini #iranprotest2022 #Mahsa_Aminiمهساامینی
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Bu, İran'daki üçüncü zorunlu evliliğinden ve aile içi şiddetten kaçan bir öğretmen ve annenin hikâyesidir. O kadınları araç olarak kullanan bir aşiretten geliyor. Parisa Rajabi’nin Türk hükümeti tarafından sınır dışı edilmesi onun ölümüne sebep olabilir.
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While we're concentrating on the protests, let's not forget the courageous Iranian men and women who take extraordinary measures every day to lead a normal life. One such woman is Zahra, a poetess, who has to paint a beard on her face to go to watch a football match.
While we're concentrating on the protests, let's not forget the courageous Iranian men and women who take extraordinary measures every day to lead a normal life. One such woman is Zahra, a poetess, who has to paint a beard on her face to go to watch a football match.
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The Iranian embassy in South Korea has confirmed that Enlaz Rekabi has left Soul and was on her way to Tehran Tuesday morning, after reportedly being tricked into the Iranian embassy building. #truth #Iran #IranRevoIution2022 #IranProtests2022.
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#NavidAfkarai's burial. #Iranian wrestler #Navid_Afkari who was executed in the morning of September 12, 2020, was buried on the same night in the village of Sepidan, Fars province, south central Iran.
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Scores of people have been reportedly killed and wounded after live ammunition was fired by Iranian security forces at peaceful protests in the restive eastern city of Zahedan . #truth #ZahedanMassacre #Kurdistan #KurdistanProtests.
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Detained women journalists have been moved to Qarchak prison from Evin amid an intensified crackdown against media workers. #truth #IranProtests #Iran.
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Journalist Masih Alinejad is the founder of the My Stealthy Freedom Facebook page, which has succeeded in becoming a constant irritant for the guardians of the hijab and morality in Iran
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IranWire has obtained a voice note from an inmate in Urmia prison, in northwestern #Iran, saying a 22-year-old woman committed suicide after being tortured and sexually abused in the facility. And she’s not the only one. #truth #IranRevoIution2022.
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Fear is growing over the fate of jailed Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, after his Twitter account said he might be accused of “enmity against God", a charge that carries a death sentence. #truth #IranProtests2022 #Mahsa_Amini #Toomaj_Salehi.
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Remember the woman who took off her hijab during the #IranProtests ? She's been arrested and not heard from since.
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According to the director general of Fars Province’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, the tunnels under Persepolis, which were dug thousands of years ago to carry water, saved this historical site from flooding. #iranfloods #citizenjournalists
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How Dare You Calling Me a Terrorist!?. #Iran #RevolutionaryGuards #IranRevoIution #Truth #IranProtests
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The album The Third Gender (“Jens-e Sevom”) was published by IranWire on January 17 and is the ninth work by Shahin Najafi. It is a blend of folk melodies and contemporary influences, and heralds a revolutionary new direction for Najafi’s music.
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Saghar Ebrahimi has been arrested after collecting money to buy medical supplies for people wounded by the security forces during the ongoing nationwide wave of protests. #Iran. #truth #MahsaAmini #IranianWomen.
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1/2 @shahnaz_akmali, mother of a protester killed in #Iran in 2009 has been sentenced to a year in prison for her sympathy with other bereaved parents of protesters killed by security forces. Shahnaz says that the memory of her Mustafa inspired her to be his voice @karimbeigi
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Iranian authorities have arrested three family members of Masih Alinejad, a prominent US-based Iranian journalist and activist, as retribution for her women’s rights activism.
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Day 4. Protests continue in the city of Kermanshah, West Iran.
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“This is surreal,” says #Iran women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad. “A regime that treats women as second class citizens, jails them for not wearing compulsory hijab, bans them from singing. gets elected to the UN's top women's rights body.”.
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Iranian chess players Sara Khadem and Atousa Pourkashiyan have competed without a #hijab at an international tournament in Kazakhstan, in an apparent gesture of solidarity with ongoing nationwide protests in #Iran. #truth #IranRevolution.
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Alireza Alinejad's lawyers have described the eight-year sentence as “illegal," and Masih Alinejad referred to the verdict when it was first handed down as "eight years in prison on charges of being a brother." .
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Spanish Prime Minister has met with Sara Khadem, the Iranian chess player who defected to Spain after she competed without a hijab at an international tournament in Kazakhstan. #truth #chess #sarakhadem #IranianWomen #IranProtests #MahsaAmini #Hijab.
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Like in 2009, mobile internet is cut off across Iran. Very few videos are coming out of Iran. We'll keep you posted.
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Four Decades of Struggle Against Forced Hijab in Iran. #IranProtests #Iran #IranProtests2020 #MahsaAmini #Hijab #IranianWomen #IranianWomenLivesMatter
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'The World According to Mr. Ghalibaf', cartoon by @ManaNeyestani #IranWire
http://t.co/i8hKG4o9MQ
http://t.co/xmv2nzL3ga.
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In case President #Raisi has died in the helicopter crash, his vice president Mohammad Mokhber, photo, will be in charge of the cabinet. The government will be run by the heads of the judiciary and legislative branches of the government. There will be an election within 50 days
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A tortured Iranian protester, hospitalized in Türkiye in a “critical” health condition, needs urgent liver transplant. #truth #Iran #IranRevolution.
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#QasemSoleimani's successor is announed. #Iran's supreme leader @khamenei_ir has assigned brigadier general Esmail Qaani to succeed Soleimai as the commander of the #Quds Force. Here's a picture of Qaani with Soleimani during Friday prayers.
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🎞️ Three women displayed a banner on an #Isfahan bridge that read: "The next one is one of us!” Despite a severe government crackdown, the #IranProtests2022 sparked by the murder of #Mahsa_Amini have continued across #Iran for the 19th day. #MahsaAmini
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Saba Kord Afshari, a civil activist imprisoned in #Iran, has suffered from stomach bleeding several times since being jailed and also contracted #coronavirus. Others in the human rights community now fear her health could be in jeopardy. #Accountability.
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Taming the Executioner . (by @ManaNeyestani) #Iran #Truth #iranprotests2023 #iranrevolution #IranProtests #mahsaamini #hijab
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IranWire has been in contact with a source who said authorities had pressured the families of athletes, coaches and referees who expressed support for the campaign, set up following the execution of Shirazi wrestler #NavidAfkari.
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Hostage for Sale (Zarif Asking for 400 Million Pounds in Exchange for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe)
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Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, had been on a wet hunger strike outside the British Foreign Office in London for 17 days. He is now rapidly losing strength, worrying his family. #FreeNazanin. #accountability.
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BREAKING: The situation at #Sharif_University is dire and students are asking for help. Security forces have surrounded the university campus. This video shows the police surrounding the north gate of the university. #Iran #IranProtests2022 #Mahsa_Amini #MahsaAmini
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Esmail Qaani was #QasimSoleimani's deputy in the Quds Force. Like Soleimani, he was a revolutioary guards commander during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Qaani (second from right) in this picture from, circa 1986, with then president and now leader @khamenei_ir (with glasses) #Iran
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The "Revolution Women" of #Tehran, #Mashhad and #Isfahan: Speaking out against #hijab in a simple but stunningly effective way. It's #WhiteWednesday tomorrow. Will there be more to come?
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Journalist Masih Alinejad is the founder of the My Stealthy Freedom Facebook page, which has succeeded in becoming a constant irritant for the guardians of the hejab and morality in the Islamic Republic of #Iran.
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EXCLUSIVE: Iranian judicial officials have sentenced a pregnant woman in her early-20s to death, and her execution is imminent. #truth #IranProtests2023 #IranRevolution2023.
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Spewing Hatred Against Women. #Iran #Truth #IranianWomen #iranianwomenlivesmatter #Mahsa_Amini #MahsaAmini
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An Iranian court has sentenced an 18-year-old protester to death after charging him with "waging war against God" and "corruption on Earth.". #Iran #IranRevoIution #IranProtests.
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Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in cities across the country to protest, with many people shouting anti-government and anti-regime slogans
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: religious women are showing their solidarity with women against forced hijab in different cities in Iran
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🎞️ Hundreds of protesters in #Zahedan took to the streets after Friday prayers and chanted: "We Don't Want This Child-Killer Republic" and "Death to Khamenei for All These Years of Crimes". #truth #IranRevoIution #IranProtests
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An Iranian journalist newspaper who covered the death of #MahsaAmini is being held in solitary confinement and interrogated in Evin Prison without being informed of the charges against her. #IranProtests2022 . #truth #IranRevolution #Iranianwomen.
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More than a hundred protesters were killed in the #IranProtests since authorities tripled fuel prices on November 15. Now IranWire can share more names and faces of those killed by security forces in the unrest across #Iran.
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A group of woman political prisoners have staged a protest in the courtyard of Tehran's Evin Prison condemning executions in #Iran. The gathering included eight prominent political prisoners who delivered speeches. #truth #IranianWomen #IranRevoIution.
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A prisoner who had been a cellmate of Navid Mihandoost for a few days says that Navid had told him that he had not been arrested for committing an illegal act but only for his friendship with Alireza Alinejad.
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