IranWire’s Tweets
Did you know that the Islamic Republic has suppressed approximately one widespread anti-government protest every four years?
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#Iran says won’t cooperate with UN probe into protest crackdown
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Thirteen shotgun cartridges said to have been recovered from eight Iranian cities bore logos of French-Italian manufacturer Cheddite. The cities are Tehran, Yazd, Mahabad, Shiraz, Karaj, Rasht, Sanandaj and Kamyaran.
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#Iran says it will not cooperate with any #UN fact-finding mission to investigate the regime’s deadly repression of protests, after the UN voted to set up the mission last week.
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Ghazal Ranjkesh, a law student from #Iran’s southern city of Bandar Abbas, is among dozens of Iranians who sustained severe eye trauma from metal pellets shot by security forces.
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Toomaj Salehi, who has long made music with political themes, was arrested on October 30. He is said to have been subjected to “severe torture” at the hands of the clerical regime while in solitary confinement.
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With the 2022 World Cup in Qatar now under way and the national team playing in the group stages, four sports journalists and a sports photojournalist are behind bars in #Iran
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The US football federation has displayed the Iranian national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, in a show of show solidarity with protesters in #Iran.
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10 Iranian teenagers under the age of 18 are to be put on trial on charges "spreading corruption on earth” in #Iran, which carries the death penalty.
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Niloofar Hamedi, Ehsan Pirbornash, Saeedeh Fathi, and Aria Jafari were arrested in late September-October amid a fierce state crackdown on nationwide protests. #Iran #WorldcupQatar2022
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Iran’s Manager has asked Jurgen Klinsmann to resign from FIFA’s World Cup Technical Study Group and said the comments he made about Iran are “a disgrace to football”.
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Government forces have been conducting house-to-house searches in Kurdish cities following deadly clashes between protesters and heavily-armed troops.
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For #Iran’s Supreme Leader, the victory or defeat of athletes and sports teams is not important: it is important to behave in line with the system.
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UN's children agency says it “condemns all violence against children” in Iran, where a brutal crackdown by security forces on nationwide protests has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 50 under-18s.
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Our timeline of major protests over the past four decades shows that at least 10 have been violently suppressed by the government.
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Payam Vali, a Bahai in Iran, was taken to custody after police raided his home and severely beaten by the officers after resisting arrest. During interrogations, Vali was pressured to give forced confessions.
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Report on how Ali Khamenei, who has no interest in the “principle of sports” and sees sport as an opportunity to export the ideology of the Islamic Republic, has used the national football team for the benefit of his policies.
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More than 105 people have been killed in Kurdish towns over the past month, an Iranian MP said Sunday as security forces continue to violently clash with protesters.
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#Iran says it has arrested 40 foreign nationals for allegedly playing a role in the ongoing anti-government protests. #IranProtests
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The five alleged spies had been gathering information about the Azerbaijani military, including its drones, and the country’s energy infrastructure. At least two of the suspects had received religious training in Iran.
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In #Iran's Supreme Leader’s eighth speech since nationwide protests, he did not recognize the legitimacy of the protests and insulted the demonstrators by saying “they are too insignificant to hurt the regime.”
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IranWire has obtained notes from a recent meeting of members of a conservative political party at which attendees called for further suppression of protesters — especially those outside of #Iran.
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#Iran's national football team coach Carlos Queiroz has criticised Jurgen Klinsmann over offensive comments about the Iranian team.
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Iranian police have arrested sports journalist Mehdi Amirpour and moved him to the notorious Evin prison, the reporter's wife has said.
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Islamic scholars say a verse used by #Iran’s Supreme Leader to the Basij paramilitary force, is a call on Muslims to keep their spirits high and to fortify themselves after a defeat in order for them to become victorious.
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Some were detained at their homes while others were rounded up with other protesters in the streets, locked up behind bars without specific charges and haven’t been allowed to meet with their families. #Bahai
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The authorities in #Iran allege that Kurdish opposition groups are inciting anti-government protests in Iran and smuggling weapons into the country. Kurdish groups deny the allegations.
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“Plainclothes forces shot my child. That is it.”
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At least 46 journalists have been jailed in #Iran since the start of protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Iran Film Association Speaks Out Against “Infanticide” Amid Brutal Protest Crackdown
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"Iranian-supplied weapons threaten the entire region,” UK Foreign Minister, James Cleverly has stated. "The regime has resorted to selling Russia the armed drones that are killing civilians in Ukraine."
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ICYMI: Iranian actress Hengameh Ghaziani was been arrested after publishing a video of herself in which she appeared in a street of Tehran without the mandatory headscarf.
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Iranian authorities have indicted rapper Toomaj Salehi with "corruption on earth" and "enmity against God,'' two charges that carry death sentences. #toomajsalehi
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Many university students in Tehran continue to defy orders to return to class, demanding more freedoms and women's rights, and insisting authorities release those arrested during the ongoing wave of protests.
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Most of the children were killed in three ways: pellets fired at close range; shooting with long-range and precision weapons that hit vital organs; multiple baton blows to the head resulting in skull fractures and brain bleedings.
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#Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has praised the paramilitary Basij force for its role in suppressing anti-government protests that have rocked the country for more than two months.
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What is happening in #Iran’s province of #Kurdistan has both tragic and proud aspects: Kurdistan remains the flag bearer of the 70-day nationwide uprising against the Islamic Republic, despite a fierce crackdown.
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The UN‘s top human rights body has voted to establish an independent fact-finding mission to investigate abuses committed by #Iran’s security forces in their brutal crackdown on nationwide protests.
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