2 h. ago Iranian hero the Ayatollah wants to hang: Clothes shop owner, 26, 'is set to be the first executed by the regime after spending ten final minutes with his family'

Erfan Soltani will only be allowed a final 10 minutes with his family before he is hanged on Wednesday for allegedly taking part in an anti-government protest last Thursday.

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3 h. ago With thousands dead, the Iranian regime may survive these protests – but not in its current form | Sanam Vakil

With fear, surveillance and brute force only set to increase, there are disturbing parallels with Saddam Hussein’s IraqSanam Vakil is director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa programmeIran is once again convulsed by protests that are threatening the Islamic Republic’s stability and future. What began as demonstrations over a collapsing currency and rising inflation has rapidly evolved into one of the most destabilising episodes of unrest the regime has faced in years. The protests have exposed both the resilience of Iranian society and the growing brittleness of a political system stubbornly unwilling to reform.It’s the scale, spread and momentum of the demonstrations that have been most alarming to the authorities. Protests have erupted across all provinces in the country, reaching more than 180 towns and cities, cutting across class, ethnic and regional lines. This time, the turn to openly anti-regime slogans has been rapid and widespread. Protesters are no longer ...

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3 h. ago Iranian hero the Ayatollah wants to hang: Protester, 26, 'is set to be the first executed by the regime after spending ten final minutes with his family'

Erfan Soltani will only be allowed a final 10 minutes with his family before he is hanged on Wednesday for allegedly taking part in an anti-government protest on Thursday.

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4 h. ago Iranian protester to be executed tomorrow as regime steps up brutal crackdown, rights group claims

Iranian rights groups assess that potentially thousands of people have been killed in the last two weeks of protest

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21 h. ago Iran secretly ghosts in extra troops from abroad in bid to quell uprising

Iranian spooks are drafting in extra pro-regime militia from neighbouring Iraq as Tehran wreaks bloody revenge on protesters and tries to stop brave uprising against regime

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21 h. ago Nigel Farage hails 'freedom fighters' as he joins protest against Iranian regime outside embassy

The leader of Reform was spotted speaking at the demonstration outside the embassy earlier today to cheers from crowds of people.

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22 h. ago Iran crisis live: Trump ‘unafraid’ to use ‘lethal force’ on Iran but wants diplomacy to be ‘first option’, says White House

Airstrikes would be ‘one of the many options on the table’ says press secretary Karoline Leavitt as Iranian regime seeks to downplay protests‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks downIranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’Analysis: Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for restraintPeople in Iran: share your views on the current situationIran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has said communication lines with the US remain open, as the Trump administration continues to weigh the option of military strikes.“This channel of communication between our foreign minister (Abbas Araghchi) and the special envoy of the president of the United States is open,” Baghaei said, in apparent reference to Steve Witkoff.Always opposes interference in other countries’ internal affairs, maintains that the sovereignty and security of all countries should be fully protected under in...

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25 h. ago Iranian social bots sharing Scottish independence posts fall silent as regime cuts internet access

The embattled government in Tehran pulled the plug on the internet in a desperate bid to stem the number of violent protests against the Islamic regime.

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28 h. ago Moment protester rips down Iranian flag outside London embassy amid anti

Thousands took to the streets of London on Sunday as protests against the Iranian regime and the brutal crackdown by its security forces spread around the world.

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29 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain get involved in military action against the Iranian regime?

Donald Trump is weighing up whether to order military action in support of protesters against the Iranian regime as mass demonstrations continue despite a crackdown by security services.

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29 h. ago Iran crisis live: foreign minister says country ready for negotiations but also ‘fully prepared for war’

Abbas Araghchi warns adversaries against ‘miscalculation’ as Trump mulls military response to protest crackdown‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks downIranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’Analysis: Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for restraintIran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has said communication lines with the US remain open, as the Trump administration continues to weigh the option of military strikes.“This channel of communication between our foreign minister (Abbas Araghchi) and the special envoy of the president of the United States is open,” Baghaei said, in apparent reference to Steve Witkoff.Always opposes interference in other countries’ internal affairs, maintains that the sovereignty and security of all countries should be fully protected under international law, and opposes the use or threat of use of force in international relatio...

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40 h. ago Moment truck ploughs into crowd of Iranian protesters in LA before cops drag driver away

THIS is the moment a truck ploughed into a crowd of hundreds of anti-Iranian regime supporters. Chaos erupted after the U-Haul vehicle mowed through the demonstration outside a federal building in Westwood, Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the scene around 3.30pm to reports that a man drove the truck through...

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42 h. ago Bodies build up on streets in Iran 'after 500 protestors are killed': Mourners console each other

The footage was taken outside the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center in the south of Tehran following the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent.

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48 h. ago Iran warns US against attack as protest death toll reportedly soars

Tehran issues warning after Donald Trump says all options are on the table amid crackdown on demonstrationsIran warned the US not to attack over protests that have rocked the country, as Donald Trump weighed all options for a response from Washington, with the reported death toll from the demonstrations soaring to the hundreds.More than 500 people have now been killed in the violence surrounding demonstrations, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRNA), including 490 protesters. The group reported that more than 10,600 people were arrested by Iranian authorities. The regime has not supplied its own figures and it was not possible to independently verify them. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Iran threatens to hit US military targets if Trump decides to strike over protests

The UK government has praised the bravery of protesters taking to the streets en masse in the hope of toppling the Iranian regime

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52 h. ago Iranian flag becomes centre of the protests as demos grow against regime

The old Shah-era “Lion-and-Sun” flag has recently re-emerged across Iran as a symbol of protest, as Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the country’s repressive regime.

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56 h. ago UK will shed no tears if Iranian regime toppled, minister indicates as Trump considers strike

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander branded Iran a hostile state and said the UK favours a peaceful transfer of power as US sources say Donald Trump is weighing up a military strike

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67 h. ago Trump warns Tehran that US ‘stands ready to help’ Iranian protesters as regime crackdown intensifies

The US president issued a statement as Iran’s clerical regime claimed to have arrested 100 ‘armed rioters’

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69 h. ago Dramatic scenes as man climbs Iranian embassy balcony in London and tears down Iranian regime flag

A man was seen climbing onto a balcony at the Iranian embassy in Kensington and unfurling a pre-1979 Iranian flag

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2 d. ago Iranian regime flag torn down during protest at London embassy

Iranian regime flag torn down during protest at London embassy  Fox News

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