بریتانیا تیره روز است، اما بریتانیایی ها در حال مبارزه هستند

(این ترجمه یک نوشته انگلیسی‌ توسط "راشل شبی‌" است، که در همین وبلاگ آمده است).ا

لندن - بریتانیا در حال از بین رفتن است و علائم در همه جا دیده می شود

تورم دو رقمی است و انتظار می‌رود که رکود - بدترین رکود در بین کشورهای "گروه هفت" - تا سال ۲۰۲۴ ادامه یابد. سازمان "خدمات بهداشت ملی‌" در حال احتزاز است، حمل‌ونقل عمومی در حال پراکندگی است، و کمبود کارگران پس از "برکزیت" گسترده است. صاحبان خانه با افزایش نرخ وام مسکن روبرو هستند، مستاجران در معرض اخراج بدون تقصیر هستند و میلیون ها نفر نمی توانند خانه های خود را گرم کنند. بانک های مواد غذایی، که به سختی یک دهه پیش وجود داشتند، در نقطه شکست هستند و چهارده و نیم میلیون نفر در فقر به سر می برند. زمستان اینجاست و تاریک  است.ا

Britain Is Miserable, but Britons Are Fighting Back

Rachel Shabi

December 8, 2022

LONDON — Britain is languishing, and the signs are everywhere.

Inflation is in double digits, and the recession — the worst of all Group of 7 countries — is expected to last deep into 2024. The National Health Service is on life support, public transport is sputtering, and post-Brexit worker shortages are widespread. Homeowners face soaring mortgage rates, renters are subject to no-fault evictions, and millions can’t afford to heat their homes. Food banks, which barely existed a decade ago, are at breaking point, and 14.5 million people are in poverty. Winter is here, and it’s bleak.

The United States internalizes Iran's unrest

 M.K. Bhadrakumar

December 9, 2022

The ongoing unrest in Iran since mid-September following the death of a Kurdish woman in police custody shows no signs of abating as of now. The unrest has drawn support from all social strata and assumed anti-government overtones. The efficacy of suppressing the unrest is doubtful. Iran is entering a period of turmoil.

Daily Briefing: First protester executed by Iran

 Nicole Fallert

December 8, 2022

A prisoner convicted in Iran's ongoing protests has been executed.

Iran executes first known prisoner arrested in protests

Iran says it has executed a prisoner convicted of a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests, Iran’s Mizan news agency reported Thursday. It's the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran. The man was accused of blocking a street and attacking a security force member with a machete in Tehran.

27-year-old Iranian protester on death row subjected to 'mock executions' three times: Report

Moohita Kaur Garg

December 6, 2022

One of the six people facing the death penalty over the current anti-government protests in Iran has reportedly been subject to "mock executions" in prison.

Sahand Noormohammadzadeh was found guilty of "enmity against god" last month over accusations of blocking traffic and setting a bin on fire and is one of those facing a death sentence.

1,200 Iranian students poisoned ahead of mass protests

Olivia Land

December 6, 2022

A group of 1,200 university students in Iran were struck down by food poisoning the night before a wave of anti-regime protests were set to be held throughout the country.

Students at Kharazmi and Ark universities experienced vomiting, severe body aches and hallucinations, the national student union claimed Thursday.

Iran allegedly shutting down ‘morality police’ after protests; critics brand news ‘disinformation’

Adam Schrader

December 4, 2022

The revelation was made by Iran's Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri in remarks during a meeting Saturday, according to the BBC and The New York Times citing Iranian state media agencies.

The news has been called "disinformation" by Iranian journalists critical of whether Iran would follow through with shutting down its controversial police force.

As Iran Unrest Turns to Armed Clashes, Government Prepares Fight to Survive

Tom O'conner

December 1, 2022

As a wave of unrest in Iran sparked by the death of a Kurdish woman in police custody continues to rock the nation two and a half months after it began, crackdowns by security forces on demonstrations have at times been met with armed resistance, threatening a new, even more violent phase in which the Islamic Republic would be fighting for its very survival.

Newsweek spoke with officials, experts and activists who acknowledged the potential for this new phase of instability persisting throughout Iran.

Outsider in the House

For those who believe that the political system in the United States is a democracy, with the definition of “democracy” that one can find in dictionaries, it will perhaps be shocking to learn about the electoral statistics. Analyzing various elections in the United States, one can infer that the most important election by far, is a presidential election, when majority of the population participate. According to Statistica, percentage of those eligible to vote in presidential election was the highest in 2020 with 67%, and percentage of votes in comparison to total population was 48% in the same year. It means that more than one third of the eligible people did not bother participating in presidential election. And those who participated, were even less than half of the total US population.

Iran’s regime at an impasse as protest movement defies crackdown

Miriam Berger

December 1, 2022

The uprising in Iran, well into its third month, continues to defy expectations, persisting even amid an increasingly violent crackdown and opponents of clerical rule uniting across class and ethnic lines.

The movement, born out of long-seething anger over decades of repression, cascaded after police arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — also known by her Kurdish name, Jina — in a Tehran metro station for violating Iran’s conservative dress code for women, then allegedly beat her to death and tried to cover it up. What began in Amini’s hometown in a Kurdish-dominated province has grown into a sustained, nationwide challenge to the regime — and one not easily defeated.

Iran won’t be incoming IDF chief of staff’s biggest challenge – analysis

ANNA AHRONHEIM

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.

At least 488 killed in Iran protests — NGO

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.

Covering Iran’s unrest and crackdown from thousands of miles away

Elahe Izadi

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.

United States Enters a New Era of Direct Confrontation With Iran

David Sanger

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.

US Confronts Iran on Protests, Ukraine and Nuclear Enrichment

David E. Sanger

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.

Lost History of Iran’s 1981 Coup

Mahmood Delkhasteh

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.

در مورد خیزش جدید در ایران

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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Life in Iran before the 1979 Islamic revolution

The Week UK

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.

Op-Ed: What could come next for Iran after the Islamic Republic?

 Shervin Malekzadeh

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?

Armed attacks against Iranian security personnel intensify

News Desk

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.