Ali Mousavi, nephew of Iran’s opposition leader, MirHosein Mousavi has been reportedly shot in the heart in today’s protests. Parleman News reports that the body of the 35-year-old victim is currently at Ebn Sina Hospital with a gunshot wound in the heart. Kalameh website reports that MirHosein Mousavi is at the hospital following up on [...]
The Iranian government is cracking the whip on opposition supporters after two days of intense and sometimes bloody demonstrations in Tehran and elsewhere. Scores of opposition activists and political leaders are reported to have been arrested. The Iranian government reaction after two days of opposition protests was swift and deliberate, after its forces were put [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western leaders are condemning Iran’s use of deadly force in the latest crackdown on anti-government demonstrators. The clashes in Tehran and elsewhere have left at least eight people dead and prompted another wave of arrests of prominent reformists. Interrupting his Hawaii vacation, President Obama was blunt in addressing recent [...]
The United States, Italy, and France have all come out with statements condemning violence by Iranian security forces against civilian protesters. The White House said it “strongly condemns” what it described as the “unjust suppression” of civilians by the Iranian government — and said the United States is on the side of Iranian protesters. White [...]
At least eight people have been killed in some of the bloodiest confrontations in months between Iranian opposition supporters and security forces. Security forces are reported to have opened fire and used tear gas in crackdowns against protesters in Tehran and other cities on December 27. The state Press TV said eight people died in [...]
BEIRUT – Iranian police opened fire on crowds of protesters yesterday, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and opposition websites said, and setting off a day of chaotic street battles that seemed poised to deepen the country’s civil unrest. The nationwide protests during the holiday commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, Shi’ite Islam’s holiest martyr, [...]
It is time to start wondering out loud whether Iran’s uprising could become one of those Berlin Wall moments. This is not yet a counter-revolution. And the new “green movement” is a coalition of disparate factions — from former presidents to people who have never voted at all — who view the issues through vastly [...]
Further clashes have taken place in the Iranian capital Tehran, following anti-government protests in which at least four people died. Reports say police fired tear gas to disperse crowds of demonstrators in various parts of the city overnight. Sunday’s clashes, the worst violence since last June’s contested presidential elections, have been condemned by the US [...]
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the centre of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the violence in Tehran were vivid and detailed, but they could not be independently confirmed [...]
Ashura, the tenth day of the month of Moharram in the Muslim calendar, is a day replete with symbolism for much of the world’s Shia community. In Iran, in the run-up to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, it acquired enormous political significance as the message of Ashura was redefined for the modern age and the [...]