Iranian judicial and security authorities have resorted to sending text messages to citizens to warn them to stay away from protests unfolding against a gasoline price hike.
Grand Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani has called on the Iranian Parliament (Majles) on Saturday, November 16 to revoke the decision to increase the price of gasoline as massive protest demonstrations are raging in the streets of major Iranian cities.
As gasoline price-increase protests spread to a dozen cities in Iran, exiled prince Reza Pahlavi tweeted Friday that the Islamic Republic has brought only poverty and suffering to the Iranian people.
Iran's Supreme Leader has said: "We support Palestine and its liberation and independence, but elimination of Israel does not mean the elimination of the Jewish people."
Amnesty International (AI) has issued a statement welcoming Sweden’s arrest of a former Iranian official accused of taking part in extra-judicial killings in prisons in Iran in 1988.
A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary says the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has pardoned 32 journalists and students who have been in jail "for security-related reasons."
People in Baghdad took to Tahrir (Liberation) Square in downtown Baghdad the epicentre of recent anti-regime protests Thursday evening when their football team beat the Iranian team 2-1 in the 2020 World Cup Qualifiers.
The latest OPEC monthly report published November 14 says that not only Iran’s oil production fell in the first ten months of 2019, but also the price of the most exported type of Iranian oil fell.
Seventy-two imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes in Iran who are on hunger strike in protest to the restraints imposed on Nour-Ali Tabandeh, the leader of the Gonabadi Sufi order, have said that they are determined to continue their hunger strike.
The U.S. added more than a dozen companies and individuals to its trade blacklist for providing material support to chemical and biological weapons activity in Syria and diverting U.S. items to Iran without authorization.
The labor union at Iran’s Haft-Tapeh Sugar Mill announced that 1,000 workers gathered on November 13 to protest and demand their unpaid wages. The protest was held at Bazaar of the town.
Iran Judiciary has arrested several of its own employees in a continuing anti-corruption drive.
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