Verified video footage, photographs and testimonies from victims and eyewitnesses on the ground obtained by Amnesty International confirm that Iranian security forces used unlawful force against peaceful protesters who gathered across Iran following the authorities’ admission that they had shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane on 8 January.
Video and photo evidence coming out of Iran shows multiple crowds refusing to walk on American and Israeli flags amid protests against the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment, signaling a rejection of the Tehran regime’s hardliner narrative and eliciting praise from some Western observers.
We must worry about the future of Iran if the Flight PS752 passengers constitute a representative sample of the brains Iran is losing.
This isn’t just detached political analysis and smug Twitter takes to us. It is about a lifetime of experience and broken US foreign policy.
The situation in Iran was deteriorating even before Trump ordered the assassination of a top military commander, Qasem Soleimani.
Reporters 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.
President 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.
We 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.
Gen. 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.
Nazanin 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.
