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A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran’s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran.. Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the ...
Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against women and girls” has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to “crimes against humanity ...
Some of these women were subsequently disqualified by the Guardian Council, some failed to win the necessary votes to re-enter parliament, some were imprisoned or left Iran, and others are still seeking re-election to the parliament. [1] There are 16 women from 13 constituencies in the current term of the parliament of Iran. [2]
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is still active as of October 2023, despite the harsh repression by the Iranian authorities. [ 20 ] After the Islamic Republic censored the social media of "the Covenant" and " Neighborhood youth alliance ", leadership of the movement shifted to a coalition of Iranian opposition leaders, including the ...
Iran was the first country [2] to pledge assistance to Iraq to fight ISIL, deploying troops in early June 2014 following the North Iraq offensive. [3] [4]President of Iraq Fuad Masum has praised Iran as "the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists".
LONDON — Protests led by women have erupted across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Mahsa Amini, from Kurdistan, was visiting Tehran on Sept. 13 when she was ...
This is a list of current and former members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its previous incarnations, including operating as a branch of al-Qaeda known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), from 2004 to 2006. [1]
Iran has launched a major new crackdown on women defying the country’s strict dress code, deploying large numbers of police to enforce laws requiring women to wear headscarves in public ...