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November 30, 2022
Iran might pose the greatest external threat to the State of Israel, but the relations between the IDF and the political echelon is going to be the greatest challenge for incoming Chief of Staff Hertzi Halevi when he takes office in January.
Halevi, who will replace Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, will have his work cut out for him from the moment he sits behind his desk at the Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Deutsche Welle
November 29, 2022
The Iranian Human Rights group said that more than half had been killed in areas with high Kurdish and Baloch populations. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities acknowledge a toll of more than 300 for the first time.Iranian security forces have killed at least 488 people in a crackdown on protests, the Iranian Human Rights (IHR) group said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said "more than 300 martyrs and people" have been killed in the unrest, the first time authorities have acknowledged such a figure.
Protests broke out in mid-September in Iran following the death of young Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody, who had been detained for allegedly failing to wear her veil according to the Islamic Republic's strict dress code.
November 28, 2022
For more than two months, journalist Golnaz Esfandiari has been reporting nonstop on the protests and brutal crackdowns erupting across Iran — from more than 2,500 miles away in Prague.
It’s not easy. With foreign press virtually absent inside Iran — where authorities are arresting local journalists, restricting internet access and allegedly spreading misinformation online — distant correspondents such as Esfandiari face a deluge of challenges in getting accurate news about Iran to the rest of the world.
November 25, 2022
Over the past few days, Iran has told international inspectors that it plans to begin making near bomb-grade nuclear fuel deep inside a mountain that is hard to bomb, and dramatically expand its nuclear fuel production at a plant that Israel and the United States have repeatedly sabotaged.
November 25, 2022
Over the past few days, Iran has told international inspectors that it plans to begin making near bomb-grade nuclear fuel deep inside a mountain that is hard to bomb, and dramatically expand its nuclear fuel production at a plant that Israel and the United States have repeatedly sabotaged.
June 21, 2016
The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word “coup” when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald Reagan’s political self-interest in keeping secret his own “coup,” as Mahmood Delkhasteh reflects.
پیش از هر چیز باید به این نکتهٔ ضروری اشاره کرد که خیزش جدید در ایران باید از جانب کلیه ایرانیان و بدون توجه به ایدئولوژی‌های شخصی حمایت شود. در ایران آنچه که همهٔ اعتراض کنندگان را به مبارزه در خیابان‌ها، بدون ترس از عکس‌العمل خشن رژیم، وامیدارد تنفر آنها نسبت به رژیم و استیصال آنها در مقابل دزدی و جنایت عوامل رژیم است. در مرحلهٔ نخستِ هر خیزشی، یک عاملِ همه‌گیر تظاهر کنندگان را به یکدیگر پیوند میدهد. خط‌کشی‌های سیاسی که مخالفین خارج از ایران از روز نخست مدّ نظر داشته‌ا‌ند، پس از خیزش و در مرحلهٔ انقلابی آن در ایران صورت خواهد گرفت، البته اگر این خیزش به انقلاب تبدیل شود، که موضوع این نوشتار است.
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November 22, 2022
Iran is in the grip of a full-scale revolution, according to an Iranian-American campaigner, after the home of the founding father of the Islamic republic was firebombed by protesters.
Thousands have taken to the streets across the country in recent weeks, their outrage sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in custody in September after being detained by Tehran’s morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.
November 22, 2022
The outrage sparked in September by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained by Iran’s morality police, continues to fuel protests against the Islamic Republic. As the demonstrations spread and outward resistance emboldens, we must ask two months in: What will it all lead to?
November 17 2022
On the evening of 16 November, two members of Iran’s security forces were killed and at least eight others were injured in the neighborhood of Khane Esfahan in the city of Isfahan. The assailants who carried out the attack reportedly drove by on motorcycles and opened fire on the security forces stationed in the street.
According to Fars News Agency, the two victims were Mohsen Hamidi and Mohammad Hossein Karimi, both members of the Basij – one of the five armed wings of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that serves as an auxiliary force engaged in internal security.
November 16, 2022
While brave young women are being shot by police in Iran, their compatriots in America are being attacked for even suggesting negotiations with the regime
Don’t bother showing up for the lecture that a prominent Iranian American author was supposed to give at Harvard this month. It’s been “postponed.” Harvard acted after being bombarded with protests and threatened with a large-scale demonstration.
That gave me a free evening, since I was supposed to introduce the lecturer, Trita Parsi, author of three books about Iran. It also fits into a startling pattern of harassment and threats that has passionately split the Iranian American community. Those who favor negotiation with Iran, including a new nuclear deal, are being bitterly attacked by compatriots who reject any contact with the mullahs’ regime while brave girls and women are being shot by police back home.
Videos shared on social media appear to show the house of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on fire, with activists saying that it was torched by protesters – a claim rejected by state media.
November 16, 2022
From the onset of the Ukraine war, the corporate media, politicians, and all the controlled NGOs throughout America and Western Europe were lockstep in their claim that the Russian military action in eastern Ukraine was unprovoked and unjustified—an act of aggression that could not be allowed to stand.
There was one problem with this propaganda blitz: it was totally untrue. The Deep State—the government elites, intelligence community, and the military establishment—has spent decades threatening and provoking Russia by pushing NATO up against their border.
جنبش جدید ایران توسط نسلی در حال شکل‌گیری است که چه به صورت حقیقی و یا نمادی از طریق وسائل ارتباط جمعی، جهان را درنوردیده و به آزادی‌ها و پیشرفت‌های سایر نقاط جهان کاملا واقف است. اگر هیچ یک از افراد این نسل حتی از خانه خود هم بیرون نرفته باشد، به دلیل در اختیار داشتن شبکهٔ جهانی اینترنت در تلفن‌های همراه و سایر وسائل ارتباط رسانی، از فساد رژیم و دزدی‌های عمال رژیم و کاستی‌های مالی و ارزشی در مقایسه با سایر مردم جهان، کاملا آگاه است.ا
November 14, 2022
Iran is a country of contradictions. It possesses intense natural beauty, deep cultural and historical roots, and a formidable people from a kaleidoscope of ethnic origins. For 43 years, Iran has been under theocratic rule, led by a supreme leader and a power structure that has instilled fear in the very people it governs and that has ostracised the country from the global community.
According to Melicka Jamshidabadi, a highly successful filmmaker and photographer, women have been denied freedom of dress, expression, and equal rights before a court of law, as well as the ability to hold senior decision-making authority in the government or judiciary. Despite this, young Iranian women are reported to have the highest literacy rate in the Middle East, with a high percentage of university graduates. They have one of the highest percentages of university graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics when compared with other countries.
November 13, 2022
A revolutionary court in Tehran on Sunday sentenced to death a detainee for burning a government headquarters during the wave of protests against the death in custody of young Mahsa Amini on September 16, in the first sentence of this caliber since the start of the demonstrations.
The official IRNA news agency, which does not identify the convicted person, notes that the sentence was handed down in relation to charges of committing a crime against national security and "corruption in the land", the latter crime punishable by execution.
The verdict, however, can still be appealed.
The court also sentenced five people to between five and ten years' imprisonment for disturbing public order.
The verdict comes after the Iranian government denied a request by more than 200 members of parliament to impose stiffer punishments for the detained participants.
The NGO HRANA estimates that more than 15,000 people have been taken into police custody, temporarily or so far, since the outbreak of the protests, which have cost the lives of more than 330 people, including about 50 security personnel.
More than 2,000 people had already been charged, almost half of them in the capital, Tehran, since the demonstrations began, according to figures from the Iranian judiciary.
November 9, 2022
With Veterans Day in mind, I was asked as a retired U.S. military officer for a comment on the 2022 election results, which produced this:
When both political parties pose as pro-military, when both are pro-war, when both are enablers of record-high Pentagon spending, when both act as if a new cold war with China and Russia is inevitable, do election results even matter? No matter which party claims victory, the true victor remains the military-industrial-Congressional complex.
November 11, 2022
Hundreds of angry men protested after Friday prayers in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province, online videos showed, six weeks after rights groups say dozens were killed during a crackdown in the region.
آپارتمانی که حاج عباس در آن زندگی میکرد چهار طبقه بود. هر طبقه‌ای دو واحد داشت که درهایشان روبروی هم باز میشدند. بنابراین در این ساختمان هشت خانوار زندگی میکردند. ساختمان در یکی از محلات گران‌قیمت تهران قرار داشت. عشرت خانوم، همسر حاج عباس، با خانم‌های همسایه مقیم در آن مجموعه هر روز با هم و بصورت گروهی راه میرفتند. نزدیک منزلشان پارکی بود که وسائل ورزشی داشت. خانمها قرار داشتند که هر روز ساعت چهار بعد از ظهر پیاده به پارک بروند و نرمش کنند، و سپس پیاده برگردند، که هم راه رفته باشند و هم نرمش کرده باشند.
"If there is a hot war between the U.S. and a major power, it will be the result of the U.S. choosing escalation over de-escalation, brinkmanship over detente — not just once but over and over again."
November 9, 2022
The commander of the U.S. nuclear arsenal [Charles Richard] has stated unequivocally that the war in Ukraine is just a warmup exercise for a much larger conflict that’s already in the mail.
November 8, 2022
Walter Russell Mead jumps at the chance to push for regime change:
“But using all the diplomatic and economic tools at America’s disposal to help the Iranian people’s fight for freedom is both the right thing to do and the best way to advance U.S. interests at a critical time.
The time for action is now.”
