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☆ Iran’s Online Crackdown Prompts Smuggling of Starlink Kits
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Protests broke out in Iran more than two months ago after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody. Iranian border guards discovered the gray box in a van crossing from Iraq in late October. Inside was a sleek machine resembling a monitor. But after questioning the driver, the guards waved the vehicle through, people involved said. The guards had just allowed a Starlink satellite dish sold by a division of Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, into the country.
☆ Qatar Warns Brussels Bribery Allegations Could Impact Energy Deals With Europe
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance shook hands with Qatar’s energy minister, Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, after Qatar agreed a deal with the U.S. company to send Germany liquefied natural gas. Qatar warned that an investigation by authorities in Brussels into its role in an alleged influence and bribery scheme could adversely affect energy deals with Europe, and it condemned a push by the European Parliament to suspend dealings with the Persian Gulf kingdom. The European Parliament’s move “will negatively effect regional and global security cooperation, as well as ongoing discussions around global energy poverty and security,” a statement by a Qatari diplomat to the European Union said Sunday, noting that Qatar is an important supplier of liquefied natural gas to Belgium.
☆ Qatar Warns Brussels Bribery Allegations Could Hurt Energy Talks With Europe
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance shook hands with Qatar’s energy minister, Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, after Qatar agreed a deal with the U.S. company to send Germany liquefied natural gas. Qatar warned Sunday that an investigation by authorities in Brussels into its role in an alleged influence and bribery scheme could adversely affect energy talks with Europe and condemned a decision by the European Parliament to suspend dealings with the Persian Gulf kingdom. The European Parliament’s move “will negatively effect regional and global security cooperation, as well as ongoing discussions around global energy poverty and security,” a statement by a Qatari diplomat to the European Union said Sunday, noting that Qatar is an important supplier of liquefied natural gas to Belgium.
☆ Iran Protests Create Lasting Challenge to Government, Security Officials Say
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Dov Lieber In Tel Aviv | David S. Cloud In Dubai | Benoit Faucon In London | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Western and Middle East security officials have concluded that a three-month-old Iranian protest movement represents a lasting drive for change that will challenge the foundations of the Islamic Republic but isn’t an immediate threat to the government in Tehran. The security officials said the protest movement’s durability was surprising, given how quickly the Iranian government put down demonstrations in 2009, 2017 and 2019. Protests erupted in September after the death of a young woman detained for allegedly violating Iran’s female dress code and quickly transformed into demands for the end of the Islamic system that has ruled the country for 43 years.
☆ U.N. Peacekeeper Killed in Rare Attack in Lebanon
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An Irish soldier serving in a United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon was killed and three others were wounded late Wednesday when they came under attack from unknown gunmen, according to the U.N. and the Irish Defense Forces. The attack occurred near the town of Aqbieh—about halfway between Beirut and Lebanon’s southern border—when one of two armored vehicles carrying eight Irish peacekeepers to a local airport took a wrong turn and was ambushed on a dark road, authorities said.
☆ Second Iranian Protester Executed as Government Shifts its Response
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran hanged a man in public on Monday who had been convicted of killing two security force members, the judiciary news agency reported, the second execution in a week as the authorities’ strategy for putting down antigovernment demonstrations emerges. The execution of 23-year-old Majidreza Rahnavard, less than a month after the alleged stabbings and only four days after he was convicted, highlighted a tactical shift for Tehran in recent days. The government has moved toward swift punishment against a few people accused of violent crimes against security forces while holding out the possibility of concessions to other Iranians.
☆ Iran Sentences Five to Death Over Killing of Paramilitary Member
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The number of people sentenced to death in Iran in connection with recent protests is at least 10, according to judiciary statements. Iran’s judiciary announced Tuesday that it had sentenced five defendants to death and 11 others, including three minors, to prison in the killing of a paramilitary member, widening its use of capital punishment and lengthy jail sentences against antigovernment protesters. The unidentified defendants were convicted of involvement in the death of Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of Iran’s elite paramilitary Basij unit who is said to have been killed last month in a Tehran suburb, according to Masoud Setayeshi, a spokesman for the judiciary.
☆ Iran Considers Easing Some Restrictions on Women as Protests Continue
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iranian officials said they were finalizing plans to overhaul the enforcement of laws around women’s dress, as hundreds of businesses in Tehran and other Iranian cities closed their doors Monday at the start of a three-day strike called by antigovernment protesters. But the prospect of government concessions appeared unlikely to satisfy many protesters who have called for a mass rally in Tehran on Wednesday.
☆ Iran Abolishes Morality Police, Considers Changing Hijab Laws, Official Says
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s attorney general said the country had disbanded its so-called morality police and is considering altering the requirement that women cover their heads in public, a move that analysts said was aimed at peeling away support for antigovernment protests. Mohammad-Jafar Montazeri outlined the steps Saturday, saying the law requiring veils, known as hijabs, was under review by Iran’s Parliament and judiciary, and that the morality police had been abolished, according to government-run news agencies.
☆ Iran Disbands Morality Police, Considers Changing Hijab Laws, Official Says
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s attorney general said the country had disbanded its so-called morality police and is considering altering the requirement that women cover their heads in public, a move that analysts said was aimed at peeling away support for antigovernment protests. Mohammad-Jafar Montazeri outlined the steps Saturday, saying the law requiring veils, known as hijabs, was under review by Iran’s Parliament and judiciary, and that the morality police had been abolished, according to government-run news agencies.
☆ Iran’s President Visits Kurdish Province Amid Growing Unrest
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi touted development projects in the restive Kurdish region where Tehran has carried out its harshest crackdown since antigovernment protests erupted in September. Mr. Raisi spoke Thursday at a ceremony marking the completion of a water project and promised action on other infrastructure improvements in Kurdistan, a shift in government tactics after the violent means used so far to quell the biggest threat to the Islamic Republic in its four decades of rule.
☆ Confronting Iran Protests, Regime Uses Brute Force but Secretly Appeals to Moderates
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Benoit Faucon | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
As antigovernment protests swept across Iran last month, its top leaders made a secret appeal to two of the Islamic Republic’s founding families, the moderate Rafsanjani and Khomeini clans that hard-liners had pushed out of power, said people familiar with the talks. Iran’s national-security chief, Ali Shamkhani , asked representatives of the families to speak out publicly to calm the unrest. If that happened, he said, liberalizing measures sought by demonstrators could follow, the people said.
☆ Iran Attacks Northern Iraq, Targeting Kurdish Groups for Unrest at Home
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( David S. Cloud | Laurence Norman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iranian missiles and drones struck the headquarters of Kurdish groups near the cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniyah in Iraq on Monday. Iran attacked Kurdish groups in northern Iraq with drones and missiles on Monday after weeks of warnings from Tehran that it would target foreign actors it accuses of orchestrating a two-month-long antigovernment protest movement at home. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, targeted bases of Kurdish groups near the cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniyah, leaving at least two people dead and nine injured, according to Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government. It was the second major attack in the region since the protests began, though the IRGC has fired artillery at less populated areas on multiple occasions.
☆ Iran Issues First Known Death Sentence for Protester
  + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Benoit Faucon | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An Iranian protester was sentenced to death for setting fire to a government building, the country’s judiciary said Sunday, the first known use of capital punishment by authorities seeking to suppress nearly two-month-old antigovernment demonstrations. The death sentence opens a new phase in Iran’s attempt to use its legal system against mass protests that were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September after she was detained for wearing attire the authorities deemed inappropriate.
☆ Israel Hits Suspected Iran Weapons Convoy in Syria With Airstrikes
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( David S. Cloud | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Israel carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria targeting a convoy of vehicles suspected of smuggling Iranian weapons after it crossed the border from Iraq, people familiar with the attack said Wednesday. The attack late Tuesday near Abu Kamal—a border town often used as a transshipment point by militant groups with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—destroyed several vehicles and killed at least 10 people, including an unknown number of Iranians, according to the people and Iraqi militia members.
☆ Iran’s Supreme Leader Strikes Conciliatory Tone With Protesters
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( David S. Cloud | Aresu Eqbali | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pictured last month in Tehran, accused foreign powers of conducting a form of unconventional warfare against the country. Iran’s Supreme Leader took a conciliatory stance toward protesters on Wednesday, saying the government had no dispute with young people on the streets, as he sharpened his assertion that the U.S. and other foreign powers were orchestrating the monthslong unrest. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei provided no evidence for his claim of foreign involvement, but he accused the U.S. and others of conducting a form of unconventional warfare against Iran, an escalation in Tehran’s rhetoric as sit-ins and other protests continued in multiple cities.
☆ Iranian Protesters Defy Military Calls to Stay Home
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Demonstrations in Iran began as a defiant call for women’s rights and have transformed into an antigovernment movementIranian student protesters defied a call to halt demonstrations from one of the country’s top military commanders, facing down security forces at universities and on the streets in multiple cities on Monday. Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami , the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, directed his warning to young protesters on Saturday, saying that they had been fooled by Iran’s foreign adversaries and that they were risking their future.
☆ Iraqi Parliament Elects Iran-Aligned Mohammed al-Sudani as Prime Minister
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( David S. Cloud | Ghassan Adnan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Demonstrators waved Iraqi national flags in Baghdad on Tuesday during a protest against the new government led by Mohammed al-Sudani. BAGHDAD—Iraq’s Parliament chose Mohammed al-Sudani as prime minister Thursday, aligning Baghdad more closely with Iran amid deep public unrest over rampant corruption and a lack of jobs. Mr. Sudani and his cabinet were approved under tight security, breaking a yearlong impasse between a bloc of Iranian-backed factions that endorsed him and supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, a Shia cleric whose followers delayed the formation of the government for months with violent protests and gunbattles outside the parliament building. Mr. Sadr’s faction won the most votes in last October’s election, but he and his bloc withdrew from the political process after he failed to form a coalition.
☆ Iran Charges Hundreds Accused of Joining Protests
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iranian authorities announced charges against hundreds of people in Tehran in connection with the protests that have swept across the country, the first major legal action by authorities to suppress the unrest. Judicial officials said that 516 people who had a main role in the protests would be brought to trial starting this week, including 315 in Tehran and 201 in a nearby province, according to official Iranian news agencies. Four defendants are charged with “war against God,” an offense that carries the death penalty.
☆ Iran Turns Against West, as Russia Uses Its Drones on Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( David S. Cloud | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s decision to send armed drones to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine jeopardizes years of engagement with the West and marks a risky gambit by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to disrupt an international system that he sees as stacked against Tehran, analysts said. Siding with Moscow threatens to deepen Iran’s isolation at a time when Iran’s rulers are facing widespread internal unrest and an economy crippled by U.S. sanctions over its nuclear program. Already the European Union has imposed new sanctions on Iran in response to its supplying Russia with drones and crackdown on protests.
☆ Iran Protests Spread With Uprising at Prison
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Benoit Faucon | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The protest movement sweeping Iran spread to a Tehran prison known as a symbol of political repression in a new challenge to the Islamic Republic, with detained dissidents chanting antigovernment slogans before violence erupted and a deadly fire engulfed the facility, activists said. Authorities said the fire killed four inmates and blamed a planned escape attempt on Saturday for the mayhem at Evin Prison, a complex in north Tehran erected by the shah five decades ago that the U.S. says is a political prison for dissidents and foreigners. A large fire was visible at Evin from the densely populated neighboring communities, and loud bangs were heard through much of the night.
☆ Iraq Names New President, Paving Way for Next Government
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( David S. Cloud | Ghassan Adnan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iraq’s new president, Abdul Latif Rashid, second from right, handed an assignment to form a new government to Mohammed al-Sudani in Baghdad on Thursday. BAGHDAD—Iraq’s Parliament moved Thursday to end a yearlong deadlock over forming the country’s next government, choosing an independent Kurdish politician as the new president after a rocket attack nearby failed to disrupt the proceedings. A majority of the lawmakers present in Parliament voted over two rounds to select Abdul Latif Rashid as president, a largely ceremonial post. Immediately after he was sworn in, Mr. Rashid asked Mohammed al-Sudani, a senior Shiite politician, to assemble a new government.
☆ Iran’s Women Brave Extraordinary Risks to Protest
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ More Iran Oil Industry Workers Join Antigovernment Protests
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Oil industry strikes in Iran widened Tuesday as workers at a major refinery south of Tehran joined employees at other facilities in announcing support for antigovernment protests, deepening the unrest in a critical sector of the economy. Workers demonstrated outside the Abadan refinery in Khuzestan province, voicing support for the nationwide protests and jeering police, according to social-media posts.
☆ Iraq Can’t Afford OPEC-Mandated Oil Production Cut, Senior Leader Says
  + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Benoit Faucon | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iraq can’t afford to reduce its oil production as part of a move by OPEC+ to slash output, according to the top candidate for the Iraqi prime minister’s post, who said the country needs the money to bolster its floundering economy. The Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its Russia-led allies agreed to cut output by 2 million barrels of oil a day last week. Critics, including the U.S., said the cut was meant to push up already-high global energy prices and help Russia pay for its war in Ukraine. Riyadh and Moscow, OPEC+’s biggest producers, have grown closer in recent years as they benefit from the alliance.
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