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The 2011–2012 protests in Iran were a series of demonstrations in Iran which began on 14 February 2011, called "The Day of Rage". [9] The protests followed the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests and were influenced by other concurrent protests in the region .
The 2011 Khuzestan protests, known among protesters as the Ahvaz Day of Rage, relates to violent protests, which erupted on 15 April 2011 in Khuzestan province, to mark an anniversary of the 2005 Ahvaz unrest, and as a response to the regional Arab Spring.
August 5 – 2011 Syrian uprising: Turkey confirms it has seized an Iranian arms shipment to Syria. [24] August 14 – Iran confirms the arrest of the second-in-command of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Murat Karayılan, by the country's intelligence agency. [citation needed]
The Iranian Green Movement (Persian: جنبش سبز ایران) or Green Wave of Iran (Persian: موج سبز ایران), [1] also referred to as the Persian Awakening or Persian Spring by the western media, [2] refers to a political movement that arose after the June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential election and lasted until early 2010, [3] in which protesters demanded the removal of Mahmoud ...
In the civil uprising phase of the Syrian civil war, Iran was said to be providing Syria with technical support, based on Iran's capabilities developed following the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests. [41] In April 2011 U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice accused Iran of secretly aiding Assad in ...
Arab separatism in Khuzestan [3] is a decades-long separatist Arab movement in the western part of the Khuzestan Province in Iran.. From the 1920s to the early 2020s, tensions have often resulted in violence and attempted separatism by Khuzestani Arabs, including the insurgency in 1979, unrest in 2005, terrorist bombings in 2005–2006, protests in 2011, assassinations in 2017, and the 2018 ...
Daraa is where the Syrian uprising started in 2011. ... The fighting swelled as other regional actors and world powers – from Saudi Arabia and the United States to Iran and Russia – piled in ...
The British government had imposed numerous sanctions on Iran regarding concerns over the nature of Iran's nuclear program.Following the release of a November 2011 International Atomic Energy Agency report that documented weaponisation elements of Iran's nuclear activities, the British government banned all financial institutions in the United Kingdom doing business with their counterparts in ...