3 hours ago - Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, ...
7 hours ago - On Sunday, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah, who lives in the US and whose return protesters have been calling for, told demonstrators that Trump had "carefully observed your indescribable bravery" in a social media post.
6 hours ago - Pahlavi has lived in exile since the 1979 revolution that ousted his father, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and ushered in the rule of the Islamic Republic, which is currently headed by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
4 days ago - In May 2024, Ebrahim Raeesi, the former Iranian president, was killed in a helicopter crash in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, which led to an early election in June that put Masoud Pezeshkian as the new President of Iran in office. Iranian authorities continued to repress all forms of peaceful ...
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Mass killings reported as security forces use live fire on Iran protesters
power to the people of Iran and condolences to those who were killed. may their revolution succeed. the world stands with you! More on reddit.com
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Grave Concern That State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
CNN & BBC are posting that 216 protestors so far, I've seen some pro-shah outlets say 2k, what I am concerned about is that there is an active "Manufacturing of consent" so that the general public would be supportive of military action in the country (one that has an amazing track record, a la Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria). More on reddit.com
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Why is there zero 0 discussion of the protests in the Iran subreddit?
Iranian state TV broadcasted footage of apparent street fires in Tehran as protesters shouted and marched through the streets into Friday morning after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for demonstrations.
In this frame grab from video obtained by the AP outside Iran, a masked demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi during a protest in Tehran, Iran, on Friday, Jan.
3 hours ago - Human rights activists in Iran claim at least 538 people have been killed and more than 10,000 people have been detained after 15 days of demonstrations.
48 minutes ago - Protests continued in Tehran and in northern Iran on Sunday despite a near-total internet blackout, as security forces used lethal force nationwide and reports from activists and medical sources pointed to hundreds, possibly thousands, killed.
Protests erupted in Iran’s capital Thursday evening following a call by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for mass demonstrations. Witnesses say people shouted from their homes and rallied in the streets on Thursday night.
1 day ago - RISKING THEIR LIVES: New video from inside Iran shows massive crowds cheering and marching through the streets of Tehran in spite of a growing crackdown from the hardline Islamist regime. At least 65 protesters have reportedly been killed since demonstrations began two weeks…
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8 hours ago - DUBAI/JERUSALEM, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Unrest in Iran has killed more than 500 people, a rights group said on Sunday, as Tehran threatened to target U.S.
9 hours ago - The government has acknowledged the economic difficulties, but it has at the same time cracked down on demonstrators and sought to blame external forces for fomenting unrest. Iran’s president, in an interview with state television on Saturday, promised to address economic grievances but warned that the state also had a “duty” not to allow the country to be destabilized.
2 days ago - The second condition for state breakdown—the alienation of the elite—is also widely evident in Iran. What began in 1979 as a broad ideological coalition has, by 2026, contracted into a one-man party: the party of Ali Khamenei. Mir Hossein Mousavi, a founding father and the former prime minister of the Islamic Republic, is in his 15th year of house arrest.