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Iran is losing its own economy because of internet disruptions.
Amid anti-government protests, an 18-year-old Iranian, Nima, said there are no messaging apps that work in Iran right now without using VPNs. “The government is blocking VPNs right now, one by one. These sanctions also pushed tech companies to over-comply or withdraw entirely from Iran, leaving Iranians with no alternative but to use government-controlled domestic…
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A second Iranian man is put to death over a protest crime.
Iran’s authorities have said that several people have been executed in connection with anti-government protests in the country. The executions came after a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died in police custody last month after being arrested for not wearing her hijab properly. Several other people have also been sentenced to death for participating in…
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The second Iranian prisoner is executed for a protest crime.
Iran on Monday said it executed a prisoner convicted of a crime allegedly committed during protests that began in the country after the death of a woman in police custody. Iran’s state media claimed that the man stabbed a man to death and ran away. The state media further claimed that the man’s accomplices had…
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State media reported the first known protest-related execution in Iran.
The death toll reported by Amnesty does not include any children killed during protests in October, including a 7-year-old boy who died in his mother’s arms on Sunday after security forces fired into a crowd of protesters, according to a report by Oslo-based Kurdish rights group Hengaw. Iran state television broadcasted live feeds of commemorations…
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The Drones in Ukraine are Iranian.
The US has said that it is “still real interest” in providing the Gray Eagle air defence system to Ukraine and that it has concerns that the drones could be shot down by Russia. US officials said in August that Russia was training its forces how to use the Shahed-136 drones from Iran. Russia had…
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How protests in Iran relate to the national identity of the country.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that the protests over the death of a woman in police custody were a result of the “misinformation” against the government. “There is no reason to believe that the recent developments in Iran are linked to the death of a woman in police custody,” he added.
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Russia has a missile campaign that forces a frantic race to shore up Ukrainian defenses.
The Ukrainian government on Monday said that it’s in negotiations with the US to receive NASAMS, the same ground-based air defense systems that are used to protect the White House in Washington, DC. Earlier, the US said it was speeding up the delivery of NASAMS and that it’ll be in Ukraine in few weeks. Iran…