Ehsan Mehri: Shot Dead While Trying to Help a Wounded Protester
IranWire has learned from two informed sources in Iran that 34-year-old Ehsan Mehri, a bodybuilder and Kung Fu practitioner, was shot an ...
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Pouria Hamidi: His Last Video, His Last Protest
Warning: The following report contains details about suicide that may be distressing to some readers. If you are experiencing emotional ...
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Iranian man killed taking out trash as reports grow of gunfire at bystanders
A 53-year-old Iranian man was shot dead with what live ammunition while taking out his household trash, as videos and witness accounts point to a pattern of security forces firing on bystanders during unrest last month.
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Shahab Dolati: Went to Protest, His Body Returned 34 Days Later
According to information obtained by IranWire, Shahab Dolati, a barber, left the home he shared with his mother on January 9 to join the ...
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Tehran stays the course as internal warnings mount
Tehran’s political commentariat continues to issue warnings about social fragmentation, economic collapse and recurring unrest, despite little sign that such appeals are influencing decision-makers at the top.
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Iran’s campuses turn into battlegrounds again forty days after massacre
The new academic term in Iran has begun under heavy tension, with students at several major universities staging anti-government protests and forcing authorities to confront a familiar dilemma: suppress dissent or risk wider unrest.
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Shot, chased, denied care: how a mother was left to die in Iran's massacre
A 50-year-old fitness trainer who joined a protest in Esfahan with her two children last month was shot in the head and later died after a hospital refused to admit her and security forces stopped the car carrying her, sources told Iran International.
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Fatalism spreads in Iran as threat of US strike grows
A sense of fatalistic anticipation is spreading in Iran as the threat of a US strike grows, with many expressing fear of war but also resignation that it may be unavoidable—or even transformative.
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Trump’s State of the Union may test appetite for Iran strikes
President Donald Trump will step into the House chamber on Tuesday night for a State of the Union address shadowed by the prospect of new US military action on Iran, as his administration sends envoys back to nuclear talks in Geneva and builds up forces in the region.
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Parham Davoudi: Future Civil Engineer Silenced by Gunfire
According to information received by IranWire, Parham Davoudi was among the protesters near Valiyasr Intersection in Baharestan, Isfahan ...
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Kamran Ahmadi: 22-Year-Old Worker Killed During Isfahan Protests
According to information obtained by IranWire, Kamran Ahmadi was shot and killed by Islamic Republic forces using live ammunition on Fri ...
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How Tehran whitewashes its crimes abroad
As Iran’s security forces crushed protests, a parallel operation unfolded online, blaming a domestic uprising on a global conspiracy.
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Iran students adopt monarchist symbols as protests grow for third day
A wave of Iranian student activism adopting the pre-1979 Lion and Sun emblem has gathered pace in recent days, as protests entered a third consecutive day on Monday and spread across universities in Tehran, Isfahan and Mashhad.
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Amir-Mohsen Allahyari: Shot Dead During January Protests in Karaj
According to information received by IranWire, Amir-Mohsen Allahyari, who was born in 1978, was shot and killed on January 9 in Fardis, ...
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Iran’s Universities Reopen to Protest as Students Demand Justice for the Killed
Students at universities across Iran poured onto their campuses in large numbers, protesting the killing of demonstrators and what they ...
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Iran protester dies after torture in Guards’ custody, source says
A 35-year-old protester arrested after January demonstrations in Mashhad died in hospital after weeks in a coma caused by severe torture in Revolutionary Guards intelligence detention, according to information received by Iran International.
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Dancing for the dead: How protest massacre is rewriting Iran’s mourning rituals
Iran’s January massacre of protesters has left scars far beyond the streets. In cemeteries and hometowns, families are transforming centuries-old mourning rites into defiant celebrations of lives cut short.
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Iran students rally at major universities to honor slain protesters
Students at several major Iranian universities held rallies on Sunday to commemorate those killed in recent protests and to voice opposition to the Islamic Republic, according to student groups and local media.
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Seven sentenced to death in Iran protest fire case
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced seven protesters, including a 19-year-old, to death after accusing them of setting fire to a Basij base during nationwide protests in January, according to documents reviewed by Iran International.
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Mohammad Reza Ahangar: “I Want to Tell My Child One Day That I Freed Iran”
The 40th-day memorial ceremony, known as Chehelom, for Mohammad Reza Ahangar, a 20-year-old killed during protests on Kashani Street nea ...