.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
December 13, 2022
Professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani is reportedly facing execution in Iran for "campaigning for women's rights and basic freedom in his country".
FifPro, the international players union, said it was "shocked and sickened" at the reports and called for the punishment to be revoked.
December 12, 2022
Iran publicly executed a protester in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Monday, a chilling warning to those still participating in the anti-government demonstrations that have swept the country for nearly three months.
Majid Reza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged from a construction crane. A video of the execution spreading across social media shows his suspended body, dressed in white with his hands bound behind him, slowly spinning in the predawn dark as a crowd gathers around.
December 10, 2022
CAIRO (AP) — Iran’s currency fell to a record low against the dollar on Sunday, with nationwide anti-government protests now in their third month. A breakdown in negotiations to restore Tehran’s nuclear deal has also hurt the value of the rial.
December 10, 2022
At least two dozen Iranian protesters face possible execution as a response by authorities to their participation in protests critical of the government, according to a report published Saturday by local daily ‘Etemad’.
The newspaper published a list drawn up by the Iranian authorities accusing 25 demonstrators of «waging war against God», a charge that, according to Iranian law, is punishable by death.
(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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
