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Here is a chronology of unrest in Iran, where security forces have staged tough crackdowns to stamp out dissent in the past. July 1999 - Students angered by a police crackdown demonstrate in ...
This is a broad timeline of the ongoing series of protests against the government of Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) on 16 September 2022. Amini had fallen into a coma after having been detained by the Guidance Patrol , allegedly for wearing an "improper" hijab —in violation of Iran's ...
The government's response to the protests and its "brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters and children" was widely condemned, [30] but Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the unrest as "riots" and part of a "hybrid war" against Iran created by foreign enemy states and dissidents abroad.
Her death sparked widespread antigovernmental protests in Iran. 2022–23: Civil unrest and protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and lasted until 2023. 2024: 1 April
This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have put down unrest in the country’s Kurdish areas for decades and many Kurdish activists have been sentenced to long jail terms or death.
Sanctions by the United States and the European Union, coupled with economic mismanagement, were factors involved in a severe economic crisis in Iran in the 2010s. [38] Multiple protests and strikes took place in Iran in December 2017, [39] throughout 2018 [40] [41] and in the first half of 2019. [42]
Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the ...