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CNN —Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi was rearrested in northern Iran on Thursday, less than two weeks after his release from prison, according to his official social media channel. A group of armed men suddenly approached Salehi and his friends and, without identifying themselves, started attacking the group, witnesses said. When nationwide protests started in mid-September last year, Salehi called for Iranians to protest against the government. “I was tortured a lot during my detention,” Salehi says in the video, posted on social media. Sources close to Salehi told CNN the rapper had recently started treatment and therapy for the injuries he sustained while in prison and was scheduled to undergo surgery in the coming days.
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[1/3] Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of students in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2022. Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran and is the sister of Ayatollah Khamenei, criticised the clerical establishment starting from the time of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to her brother's rule, the letter, dated "December 2022", said. "Ali Khamenei's Revolutionary Guards and mercenaries should lay down their weapons as soon as possible and join the people before it is too late," the letter said. The Revolutionary Guards are Iran's elite force which has helped the country's establish proxies across the Middle East, and runs a vast business empire. President Ebrahim Raisi meanwhile gave a speech at the University of Tehran to mark Student Day.
Iran summons UK and Norwegian envoys as unrest persists
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Protestors stand in solidarity with Iranian women after the death of Mahsa Amini, in London, Britain September 24, 2022. He also said that "acts of chaos" were unacceptable and that Iran must deal decisively with the unrest. At the United Nations, he said extensive coverage of Amini's case was "double standards", pointing to deaths in U.S. police custody. The Norwegian envoy was also summoned to explain the "interventionist stance" of the country's parliament speaker, who has expressed support for the protesters on Twitter. State media said 12 bank branches were destroyed in the unrest in recent days, and 219 ATMs have been damaged.
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