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Fri 10 Jan 2020This isn’t just detached political analysis and smug Twitter takes to us. It is about a lifetime of experience and broken US foreign policy.
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Fri 10 Jan 2020The situation in Iran was deteriorating even before Trump ordered the assassination of a top military commander, Qasem Soleimani.
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More Iranian journalists arrested, mistreated in prison
Thu 09 Jan 2020Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary arrests of four journalists in northern Iran on 26 December – which has brought the number of journalists held since the start of a wave of anti-government protests in mid-November to 12 – and the inhuman and degrading treatment of two prominent women journalists in Tehran’s Evin prison in the past two weeks.
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Tue 07 Jan 2020President Trump threatened to destroy 52 Iranian sites — “some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture” — on Twitter on Saturday. This may seem like a small issue in the midst of an international crisis, but, as others have noted, his tweet amounts to an announcement of an intention to commit war crimes.
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Killing Sulaimani- How The Butcher of the People Became an Anti-Imperialist Hero
Sat 04 Jan 2020We live in a world where we often forget that multiple truths can co-exist at the same time. In an era of media conglomerates that regurgitate the same pro war slogans and headlines, and a time where the failures of the Left are stark and vast, the truth is often reduced to a simplistic, manichaean duality of black/white, either/or, US/Iran perspective.
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Iranian Commander Qassem Soleimani Assassinated By U.S. In Baghdad Airstrike
Fri 03 Jan 2020Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a senior Iranian commander and one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East, was killed in an airstrike on the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq at the direction of President Donald Trump, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. The assassination marks a monumental escalation toward Iran.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to go on hunger strike in solidarity with other detained dual nationals
Wed 01 Jan 2020Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to go on hunger strike in her jail cell to show solidarity with another dual citizen detained in Iran, as the regime urged Western countries to stay out of its legal affairs.
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European Parliament resolution of 19 December 2019 on the violent crackdown on the recent protests in Iran
Thu 19 Dec 2019– having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran, including its most recent of 19 September 2019 on Iran, notably the situation of women’s rights defenders and imprisoned EU dual nationals[1], – having regard to the Council conclusions of 4 February 2019 on Iran,
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Iran: Thousands arbitrarily detained and at risk of torture in chilling post-protest crackdown
Wed 18 Dec 2019Iran’s authorities are carrying out a vicious crackdown following the outbreak of nationwide protests on 15 November, arresting thousands of protesters as well as journalists, human rights defenders and students to stop them from speaking out about Iran’s ruthless repression, said Amnesty International today.
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Iran’s Protest Movement Doesn’t Vindicate Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign
Mon 16 Dec 2019Iran is facing its most serious protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. What began as a reaction to a sudden, 50 percent rise in fuel prices last month has since mushroomed into a far more generalized expression of anger. Facts remain muddled, in part because Iran initially imposed a total internet blackout, but credible sources suggest security forces have killed at least several hundred protesters in a brutal crackdown, with hundreds more injured and up to 7,000 arrested. Coming less than two years after a spate of protests throughout the country, this latest unrest suggests broad-based discontent with the regime and a deep-seated desire for economic and political change.
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