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☆ Iran Oil Workers Strike as Antigovernment Protests Expand
  + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The southern Iranian port town of Assaluyeh, where workers have blocked roads and protested. Workers at a petrochemical complex in southern Iran went on strike Monday, the latest sign that antigovernment protests now in the fourth week are broadening to critical sectors of the economy. Dozens of workers blocked roads and protested at a plant in Assaluyeh in the oil-rich province of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, chanting “Do not fear. We stand together” and “Death to the dictator,” according to social-media posts.
☆ Iran Attacks Northern Iraq With Missiles and Drones, Killing at Least 13
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran attacked northern Iraq on Wednesday with more than 40 ballistic missiles and armed drones, one of which was shot down by a U.S. warplane as it headed toward the city of Erbil where American troops are based, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. The strikes were by far the largest and most deadly in recent days by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has carried out repeated bombardments of Kurdish areas in northern Iraq since last week, after publicly blaming Iranian Kurdish separatist groups based there for fomenting unrest that has swept across Iran.
☆ Kurds in Iran Face Establishment Fury as Unrest Spreads
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( David S. Cloud | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s nationwide crackdown on antigovernment protests has been especially severe against its Kurdish minority, with drone and artillery strikes against separatist groups and deadly clashes in Kurdish-dominated cities and towns where the unrest first arose, residents say. Iranian authorities have blamed Kurdish activists and separatists based in neighboring countries for fomenting protests that erupted in Iran’s Kurdish region following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd arrested in Tehran for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code.
☆ Iran’s Hard-Line Government Faces Growing Unrest Over Women’s Rights
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( David S. Cloud | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Antigovernment protests in Iran gathered strength Sunday with new demonstrations in scores of cities and indications that unrest was growing, posing one of the biggest challenges the country’s conservative Islamic rulers have faced in years. A movement initially led by young people that focused on the country’s strict Islamic dress code for women appeared to be broadening into a mass outpouring of pent-up dissatisfaction among middle-class workers and even religious Iranians at the regime’s treatment of its own citizens.
☆ Iran Escalates Use of Force, Expands Internet Blackout to Break Protests
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( David S. Cloud | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iranian security forces have escalated their use of force to suppress a largely peaceful protest movement, moving from nonlethal riot control tactics to firing live rounds, according to rights groups, raising fears of a higher death toll as the unrest spreads. At the same time, authorities heavily disrupted access to the Internet in an attempt to block the social-media networks on which the protesters have relied to express dissent and rally support. On Friday, posts and videos on the protests were down to a trickle.
☆ Who is Mahsa Amini, and Why Did Her Death Spark Protests in Iran?
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Demonstrations broke out across Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody on Sept. 16. She was arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s strict Islamic dress code requiring women to wear headscarves, or hijabs. Protesters burned headscarves and clashed with police, who used tear gas, water cannons and firearms loaded with metal pellets to quell the unrest.
☆ Young Palestinians Battle Israeli Troops and the Palestinian Authority, Deepening Unrest
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( David S. Cloud | Fatima Abdulkarim | Aaron Boxerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
NABLUS, West Bank—For young Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp, sleep begins after dawn. Rising in the afternoon, they wolf down a meal, grab their rifles and disperse to hide-outs down narrow alleys to wait for the arrival of Israeli troops. After sunset, the gunfights begin. It is a routine that both Israeli military forces and the Palestinian Authority see as a growing danger—young, armed militants in the West Bank who have no affiliation with known groups such as Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Leaderless and angry, they have proved difficult for Israeli and Palestinian authorities to suppress, resulting in one of the bloodiest years in the West Bank in a decade and threatening to undermine the fragile Western-backed Palestinian rulers.
☆ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Emerges in Public Amid Health Speculation
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( David S. Cloud | Aresu Eqbali | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
TEHRAN—Iranian media on Saturday published photographs and video of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attending a religious ceremony in Tehran, amid speculation about the octogenarian’s health among foreign diplomats, on social media and in published reports. Mr. Khamenei’s health has declined in recent weeks, rekindling talk in Iran’s ruling circles about a succession plan, according to an Iranian official and people close to the government. The 83-year-old leader’s medical condition is treated as close to a state secret in Iran. There has been no official confirmation that he has had recent medical problems, but he is known to have had heart and prostate problems in the past.
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