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The 39th US President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100
The US Embassy in Tehran has been invaded and occupied by Iranian students. Over 50 Americans were held hostage for 444 days in Iran prior to Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Carter negotiated a nuclear arms deal with North Korea in 1994 and helped negotiate a peace deal between Israel and Palestine.
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A advocate says that most protesters in Iran will not go free
Iran on Thursday executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing protests, the first death penalty carried out by Tehran. At least 475 people have been killed in the protests, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran. Iran has executed two people since protests erupted in September, following the death…
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Iran freed a dissident whose starving condition caused outrage
An Iranian doctor and activist, who went on a hunger strike to protest against the executions of prisoners, has been released from Tehran’s Evin prison. He went on the strike to call for the release of protesters and to demand the end of the compulsory hijab, according to his attorney. Meysami went on a hunger…
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Elnaz Rekabi returned to Iran after she competed without a hijab.
Amid anti-government protests in Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday said that the protests are not linked to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. He added that Iran was a “family-friendly” country and added that the protesters had called for the overthrow of the government. Raisi said this while addressing a meeting of the National Security…