Iran

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According to Rana Rahimpour "in an interview later, their captain dedicated the cup to Iranian women".

 

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A left communist take on the protests. I wouldn't necessarily agree with all of it.

Iran: Imperialist Rivalries and the Protest Movement of "Woman, Life, Freedom"

After six weeks of bloody protests in Iran, which resulted in the death of more than 200 people, what is going on in the minds of the protesters on the streets of Iran? What is the next step? Will the Islamic Republic be overthrown as the saying goes: "dictators neither listen nor reform...

www.leftcom.org

 

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A Sky News investigation has revealed how plain-clothes officers in Iran are being used to infiltrate protests and abduct activists from the streets.

 

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World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials

Charges Carrying Possible Death Sentence Already Being Issued November 2, 2022 – With mass public trials for protesters recently announced in Iran, and charges already beginning to be issued that could carry a death sentence, it is urgent that the international community forcefully warn the...

iranhumanrights.org

Human rights lawyer Saeid Dehghan told CHRI, “Based on the announced charges, such as ‘waging war’ and ‘corruption of earth,’ some of the accused could be sentenced to death. The detainees are being held without having been officially charged or being able to meet with a lawyer, or contact family.”

“In reality, this is a security process, not a judicial one. The security establishment wants to quickly issue sentences and doesn’t care about legal procedure. The courts are just acting as rubber stamps,” Dehghan said.

 

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Channel 4 report on the crackdown

Iran protests: mass public trials and others sentenced to death

Iran's six weeks of protest show no sign of ending despite an ultimatum delivered by the regime at the weekend and ever-harsher crackdowns from the authorities.

www.channel4.com

 

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This is worth a listen:

 

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The second podcast in the series

Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with...

thedigradio.com

These have been excellent so far, thanks for the rec!

 

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A three hour podcast with Iranian historian Abbas Amanat. What I've listened to so far is good for a wider understanding of the social background.

 

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Dina Nayeri: Why Is Iran’s Secular Shift So Hard to Believe?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/iran-secular-shift-gamaan.html

The religion survey went viral, collecting 50,000 samples and showing an undeniable secular shift across Iran: 47 percent of respondents claimed that in their lifetime they had gone from religious to nonreligious. This result spread rapidly inside Iran and sparked conversation among intellectuals, the media, students, and people all over the country. No academic organization had ever shown plausible proof of Iran’s secularity; people were excited and began holding discussion forums on social media and television, interpreting the outcome, scrutinizing the methodology, and suggesting new surveys.

 

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The latest article on Iran from the Anarchist Communist Network

Iran: Compromise is no longer an option

Judges of Death Every Iranian knows that in 1988 the Islamic Republic murdered up to 30,000 political prisoners seen as the ‘enemy within’ during its war with Saddam Hussain’s Iraq. Many had …

anarcomuk.uk

 

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Iran city erupts in violence during 40th day anniversary of slain TikTok influencer

A day of mourning for Hadis Najafi erupted into violence between police and protesters

www.independent.co.uk

Protesters honouring Hadis Najafi, 22, overwhelmed armed security forces opening fire on them, allegedly seizing some weapons before fighting back. Photographs and video of bloodied regime enforcers appeared on social media, some lying dead or unconscious on roadways or in motor vehicles. Protesters could be seen smashing a police car, with blood splattered on the side. “Death to the dictator!” chanted a massive crowd that had formed along the highway on the city’s northwest outskirts near Behesht Sakineh cemetery where Najafi is buried. Smoke rose from burning vehicles and a police substation torched by protesters. Armed interior ministry special units in distinctive black helmets and body armour could be seen swarming along the highway, opening fire at the direction of protesters, some of whom had apparently captured a Shia cleric, derobed him and set his garb on fire.

Najafi was struck down by gunfire during protests in the city of Karaj, an industrial and commercial hub just northwest of Tehran, the capital. She had studied fashion design and had made something of a name for herself with TikTok videos in which she lip-synched to popular Persian, Arabic and western songs. Security forces pressured the family about her death, and kept her burial mostly quiet. But Najafi’s passing on 26 September has galvanised Karaj, a city of 1.6 million on the slope of the Alborz mountains, and turned it into a major centre of a nationwide movement aimed at bringing about the downfall of the Islamic Republic. Protests in the city erupt nightly, often in multiple neighbourhoods, exhausting and confusing the security forces.

 

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Hadis Najafi: Iran police fire on mourners for female protester - witnesses

Authorities try to stop crowds reaching the grave of Hadis Najafi, who was shot dead at a protest.

www.bbc.co.uk

In a separate development in south-eastern Iran, a cleric at a Shia mosque was shot dead in the predominantly Sunni flashpoint city of Zahedan, state news agency Irna reports. It cites the provincial police chief as saying Sajjad Shahraki was targeted by unknown armed men.

 

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Crowds chant ‘death to the dictator’ as violence erupts in Iran

Rights activist says dead and wounded in ethnic Baluch cities of the country

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Tomorrow Was Shahrivar 1401: Notes on the Iranian Uprisings - Notes - e-flux

Militant analysis of the feminist uprising in Iran.

www.e-flux.com

 

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Ghazaleh Chalabi

Parents of Iranian woman killed during protests ‘harassed by security forces’

Forces reportedly told parents of Ghazaleh Chalabi, who died after being shot, they would withhold her body ‘if they made a noise’

www.theguardian.com

 

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What Do Iran’s Protests Mean for the Arab World? A Democracy in Exile Roundtable

What impacts could the protests in Iran have across the Middle East, both for activists in Arab countries and their widely repressive governments?

dawnmena.org

 

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This may be a preview of what Iran can expect from the World Cup. Well not winning obviously but matches turning into an opportunity for protests.

Ali Karimi has been charged in absentia.

Iran accused of ‘attempting to kidnap’ former footballer and regime critic Ali Karimi

Karimi now lives in the United Arab Emirates and has supported a number of protests in his native Iran

www.independent.co.uk

eta: from Kian Sharifi

Iran's football federation has issued a statement saying it will punish players found to be in violation of the country's laws and Fifa's rules on avoiding political stands.

 

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Worth reading though I'm not sure I'm convinced by the call for leadership.

Women, Life, Freedom

Iranians of 2022 have now resorted to waging a revolution to bring down their previously revolutionary regime. But the 1979 and 2022 revolutions could hardly be more different.

brooklynrail.org

 

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There was an Iran solidarity demo in Tralfalgar Square this weekend where the A-B lefty march ended up, or rather there were two, with the reactionary shah-loving pro-US lot and the Iranian feminist left firmly separated from each other. There's plenty I disagree with him on, but respect to Alex Gordon from the RMT coming over to address the Iranian left crowd and send solidarity to the workers' movement in Iran, I don't think any of the other UK union/lefty bigwigs there that day did the same.

 

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Video from Trafalgar Square on Saturday

 

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“From Today to the Revolution” – Slingers.Collective

This article was originally published by the “Workers Organizing Action Committees” under the title of “From today to the Revolutionary Situation; from the Revolutionary Situation to the Revolution” and can be found here.

About 50 days have passed since the beginning of Iran’s uprising, with many precious lives lost each day. Although a majority of people participate in mass movements, historically and in practice, an active minority have carried out the crucial task of organizing and leading the movement. They are, unfortunately, the first to be targeted, arrested, and killed; this is no different today. Therefore, an irreparable blow has been done to the movement by the killing, abduction, or detention of these leaders from campuses, dorms, and workplaces. Tactical flexibility, changing political initiatives according to the severity of the repression, division of labor between semi-public and secret groups, and updating the protection methods can reduce the impact of repression and facilitate the continuation of the movement. Even so, focusing on these details shouldn’t stop us from having a certain strategy and seeing the bigger picture.

The question constantly being asked these days is, “what now?” What will the resolution be if the same level of protest and suppression continues in these disorganized conditions? In other words, if this movement continues like this for a year instead of fifty days, can we expect that the regime will end eventually? If not, what can be done to elevate the movement one step ahead of the current point?

 

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Video from Trafalgar Square on Saturday

Good to see resistance against Islam Fundamentalism from people in Muslim Majority countries.

Makes me wonder to what extent the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq delayed this from happening by boosting the credibility of radical Islamic movements.

 

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A left communist take on the protests. I wouldn't necessarily agree with all of it.

Iran: Imperialist Rivalries and the Protest Movement of "Woman, Life, Freedom"

After six weeks of bloody protests in Iran, which resulted in the death of more than 200 people, what is going on in the minds of the protesters on the streets of Iran? What is the next step? Will the Islamic Republic be overthrown as the saying goes: "dictators neither listen nor reform...

www.leftcom.org

I will get around to reading this at some point (been busy and still am), but I'm interested to know which bits of it you disagree with.

 

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Islamic Republic Resorts To Threats To Keep Footballers Out Of Protests

Islamic Republic officials have issued threatening messages to members of its beach football team as well as the United Arab Emirates that recently hosted the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup.

www.iranintl.com

In a short article published Monday by Iran Daily, the official mouthpiece of the government, the Islamic Republic threatened the UAE of consequences over its lack of action to stop spectators who chanted slogans against the Islamic Republic after a match between the Iranian and Emirati national teams in Dubai on Saturday. Criticizing the UAE police for a lack of confrontation with the people, the paper said that the UAE government’s attitude is “not compatible with good neighborliness.” It added that “if the country does not react appropriately [against spectators], it must accept the consequences of this anti-Iranian action,” threatening that UAE will soon see “the consequences of this hostile action.”

This looks like sending a message to Qatar in advance of the world cup.