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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 ...
January 9 – Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure. [6]January 13 – Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian. [citation needed]January 20 – Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.
[10] But this was challenged by another source which stated that satellite pictures of the demonstration showed it having "far, far fewer people there than at recent opposition rallies, which numbered in the millions," and that instead of congregating in Azadi Square in Tehran, where the regime had "traditionally organized mass rallies to ...
Police and protesters have met in violent clashes, photos from the AP show. In this photo, a trash bin is burning as anti-riot police arrive amid protests in Iran on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022.
There have been waves of protest in Iran in recent years, the largest in 2009 bringing large crowds into the streets after what protesters felt was a stolen election. But the continued defiance ...
1978 Tabriz protests; 1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran; 1999 Iranian student protests; 2011–2012 Iranian protests; 2017–2018 Iranian protests; Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Mill Labor Syndicate; 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests; 2018 Iranian water protests; 2019–2020 Iranian protests; 2021–2022 Iranian protests
Amnesty International’s Iran unit called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release the student who was violently arrested on Saturday.
The Ashura protests were a series of protests which occurred on 27 December 2009 in Iran against the outcome of the June 2009 Iranian presidential election, which demonstrators claim was rigged. The demonstrations were part of the 2009 Iranian election protests and were the largest since June. In December 2009, the protests saw an escalation in ...