Shirin Neshat is an award-winning Iranian visual artist, whose works as a photographer and filmmaker have focused on women, identity, politics and Iran. She’s been living in exile in the United States since 1979. Her latest film, “Land of Dreams,” will be released in German theaters on November 3. It is a fictional story about an… Read More Shirin Neshat: ‘Biggest uprising since Islamic revolution’
Weronika Strzyżyńska A 17-year-old schoolboy has died in Iran’s second largest city, Mashhad, after reportedly being shot at close range by state forces during anti-government protests. Abolfazl Adinezadeh’s death certificate showed that he died of liver and kidney damage caused by birdshot, according to a BBC Persian report. A doctor was cited as estimating the distance… Read More Schoolboy protester dies in Iran after reportedly being shot at close range
Martin Chulov in Erbil, Iraq Picking through a pile of twisted metal, Rebaz, a Kurdish Iranian fighter, stooped to cradle a jagged chrome piece that was dug from the ruins of his base. “This was part of a Fateh missile,” he said. “It’s one of the biggest that the Iranians have in their arsenal. It’s from… Read More Kurds shelled as Iran seeks scapegoats for unrest
Iran’s highest military body instructed the commanders of armed forces in all provinces to “severely confront” protesters who took to the streets following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police, Amnesty International said today after obtaining leaked official documents which revealed the authorities’ plan to systematically crush the… Read More State terror in Iran: Leaked documents reveal top-level orders to armed forces to ‘mercilessly confront’ protesters
Deepa Parent Amid viral videos of Khamenei’s portraits being torn down in class, each death attributed to police brutality only stokes further waves of protest… Although the authorities claimed that Shakarami killed herself, her mother has accused the security services of murdering her, claiming that they tried to force her to say her daughter had… Read More ‘We want the clerics to get lost’: Iran’s schoolgirls emerge as powerful voices of dissent
NB: Iran’s brutal theocracy is killing and maiming hundreds of protestors for demanding freedom from the notorious band of thugs called the morality police. Shame on the Ayatollahs. All democratic minded people the world over should support the Iranian peoples struggle for democracy. DS Nasrin Parvaz Women, life, freedom. These words have become the rallying… Read More Iran’s protests are not an angry outburst, but the result of generations of trauma
In private message groups, schoolgirls across Iran said they were planning protests at the weekend to show solidarity with Esmailzadeh and Nika Shakarami, the 17-year-old schoolgirl who went missing on 20 September and was also allegedly tortured and killed by Iran’s security forces. Despite claims that Shakarami was beaten and raped, and that her body was stolen… Read More Another teenage girl dead at hands of Iran’s security forces, reports claim
As demonstrations against the death of Mahsa Amini enter their third week in Iran, a protest song by one of Iran’s most popular musicians has become the soundtrack to the biggest civil uprising for decades, channelling the rage of Iranians at home and abroad. The lyrics to Baraye by Shervin Hajipour are taken entirely from messages that… Read More Iran arrests musician as anthem for protests goes viral
Kian Tajbakhsh NB: For state officials to beat a young woman to death for showing too much hair under her hijab is positively Kafkaesque for its surreal brutality. We need to think about what religion means. Is this the will of God at work? Or the demented egos of old men with long beards? Eternal… Read More Iran’s first feminist uprising
Patrick Wintour Worldwide protests were being held on Saturday in solidarity with the growing uprising in Iran demanding greater freedom and protesting against the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest by Iranian morality police. Demonstrations under the slogan “Women, life, liberty” took place in many major cities, including Auckland, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul,… Read More ‘Women, life, liberty’: Iranian civil rights protests spread worldwide
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