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Top Iranian Sunni cleric says torture of protesters un-Islamic
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA top dissident Iranian Sunni cleric on Friday denounced as un-Islamic Iran's alleged use of forced...
Iran president 'has blood on his hands': Ebrahim Raisi and Iran's prison massacres
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFirst the guards canceled family visits. Then they confiscated the prisoners’ radios. Then came the...
Dissident Iranian cleric, relative of top leader, dies at 96
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAli Tehrani, a dissident cleric and brother-in-law of Iran’s supreme leader, has died at age 96, local media reported. Tehrani had been a critic of Iran’s authoritarian ruler, Shah Mohammad ...
Prominent Iranian Sunni cleric urges release of protest detainees
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA prominent dissident Sunni Muslim cleric urged Iranian authorities on Friday to free thousands of detained protesters and stop executions as the three-month-old unrest churned on with street ...
Macron vows tougher Iran sanctions amid protests crackdown
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrench President Emmanuel Macron said Monday the West should step up sanctions against Iran by...
Iran selects six hardliner presidential candidates in ‘predictable’ election campaign
Semafor via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoInsights from the Middle East Eye, Iran International, The Economist, and Financial Times The News...
China stands in the way of Biden’s Saudi outreach
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPresident Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday to try to repair a rocky relationship that threatens to create a power vacuum. Biden isn’t...
Iran Is About to Make Its Hijab Laws Even Stricter
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA woman, sans-head covering, at the Tajrish Bazaar in Tehran on Jan. 28. Defiant resistance to Iran's mandatory hijab law has spread across the country...
Regimes, rebels and social change: Interview with Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMasih Alinejad has been persecuted by the Iranian government for decades for speaking out against...
Iranian Rapper’s Death Sentence Draws International Uproar
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoAn Iranian court has sentenced a popular dissident rapper to death following his outspoken support...