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☆ Iran Ammunition Factory Hit by Blast
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Aresu Eqbali | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran said three drones caused an explosion at an ammunition factory in the city of Isfahan late Saturday, amid fresh tensions with the West and Israel over Tehran’s military involvement in Ukraine and stalled negotiations to revive an international accord that limits Iran’s nuclear activities. Phone footage captured by several passersby in Isfahan and posted on social media showed what appeared to be a large explosion on the side of a building on a major street.
☆ Turkey’s Erdogan Threatens to Block Sweden’s NATO Entrance Over Quran Burning
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Jared Malsin | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Police secure an area outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, over the weekend, preparing for potential demonstrations. ISTANBUL—Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday issued a new threat to block Sweden’s entrance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after a far-right politician publicly burned a copy of the Quran in Stockholm over the weekend. “If you speak about freedoms and rights, then first things first, you should show respect to the religious belief of Muslims and Turkish people,” Mr. Erdogan said in televised remarks after a cabinet meeting. “If you do not show such respect, then you cannot see any kind of support from us on NATO.”
☆ Sweden Convicts Two Iranian-Born Brothers of Spying for Russia
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The Swedish court said that evidence submitted in the case of two brothers convicted of spying included traces of classified information stored on a private computer, among other things. A Swedish court convicted two Iranian-born Swedish brothers to lengthy prison sentences for spying for Russia and its GRU military intelligence service, in a verdict that ratchets up tensions between Moscow and the West while Russia said it had begun an investigation into a U.S. national detained there on espionage allegations. Peyman Kia, 42 years old, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday as what prosecutors called the “driving force” behind the brothers’ decadelong espionage plot, while Payam Kia, 35, was sentenced to nine years and 10 months in jail. The brothers were accused of passing about 90 secret documents from the Swedish security and intelligence service, SÄPO, where the older brother worked, to Russian intelligence between 2011 and 2021, according to the Stockholm District Court.
☆ Killing of Former Afghanistan Lawmaker Highlights Plight of Women Under Taliban
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The killing of a former lawmaker in her home has shocked Afghans and drawn attention to the lack of protection for women in the country as the Taliban continue to impose strict limitations on their rights, pushing them further out of public life. Mursal Nabizada , who was shot dead in her home in the early hours of Sunday by “unknown, armed individuals,” according to Kabul police, was one of a few female members of parliament who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban took control of the country in August 2021.
☆ Iran Hangs Alireza Akbari, Dual U.K. Citizen Accused of Spying
  + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Aresu Eqbali | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Alireza Akbari is the first known dual European citizen to be executed by Tehran in decades. Iran said Saturday it had executed a former high-ranking defense official and dual British citizen on charges of espionage, a move likely to exacerbate tensions with the West as the government is wrestling with nationwide protests. Alireza Akbari , a former deputy defense minister, was convicted of passing classified national-security information to the British foreign intelligence service, MI6, in return for more than $2 million in foreign currencies, the Iranian judiciary’s news agency, Mizan, said.
☆ Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban All Education for Girls
  + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Esmatullah Kohsar | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Taliban banned girls from attending elementary school, effectively instituting a total ban on the education of girls and women and dealing one of the most dramatic blows yet to women’s freedoms since seizing power last year. In a gathering in Kabul with private-school directors, clerics and community representatives, Taliban officials on Wednesday also barred female staff, including teachers, from working in schools, closing off one of the few professions that had remained open to Afghan women under the new government, according to school principals who attended the meeting. They also said adult women could no longer visit mosques or attend religious seminaries.
☆ Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban Women From Universities, Release Two Americans
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Esmatullah Kohsar | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Afghanistan’s Taliban government banned women from attending university, expanding a prohibition on female education that has become a major point of contention with the international community and has drawn harsh U.S. sanctions. The announcement came as the Taliban released two American prisoners in what the Biden administration called a goodwill gesture to Washington.
☆ Iran’s Islamic Leaders Face a Crisis of Faith as Protests Swell
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
For decades, Iran’s clerical leaders have striven to make sure their country stays on a conservative, Islamic path. They have expanded religious education. The faithful have been urged to have more children. Those deemed to be exhibiting what the government regards as anti-Islamic behavior risk the full force of the law. Monthslong protests in Iran against the core values underpinning the Islamic system suggest the country might be heading the other way.
☆ Iran Conducts First Known Execution of Prisoner Arrested During Protests
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran said Thursday that it executed a prisoner arrested during the protests that have swept the country, the first such death sentence known to be carried out as authorities harden their stance against demonstrators seeking to overthrow the country’s clerical rulers. The executed man was convicted of blocking a street in Tehran by holding a “machete” and of injuring a member of the Basij paramilitary force, which has been deployed to suppress demonstrations, according to the Iranian judiciary’s news outlet Mizan.
☆ Sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls for Overthrow of His ‘Despotic Caliphate’
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A sister of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said she had cut ties with her brother, calling him a despotic caliph who ignored the voice of Iranians, a sign that people near the top echelons of the system are growing bolder in expressing opposition to the clerical leadership. The sister, Badri Hosseini Khamenei , also called on security forces to lay down arms and join the protesters demanding an ouster of the country’s Islamic leadership.
☆ U.S., Iran Face Off in World Cup Amid Growing Political Hostility
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
As the U.S. and Iran prepare to face off in a must-win match at the soccer World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday, tensions off the field have raised the stakes in what is turning out to be one of the most politically charged games in the tournament’s recent history. Iran has already called foul after the U.S. Soccer Federation posted a small graphic of the World Cup standings on its Instagram account in which the emblem in the center of the Islamic Republic’s flag had been removed. The federation said the move was to show solidarity with a monthslong human-rights movement sweeping across Iran, but it later deleted the post. A State Department spokesperson said that the agency wasn’t involved in either decision.
☆ U.S. Soccer Erases Emblem from Iranian Flag in Sign of Protest
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
DOHA, Qatar—With the U.S. and Iran set to play a high-stakes match in the World Cup here on Tuesday, the U.S. Soccer Federation took to social media to make what it says is a statement of support for protesters inside Iran: an altered version of the Iranian flag. The federation’s action resulted in an Iranian soccer official calling for a FIFA investigation and disciplinary action against the Americans, just two days before a match the U.S. must win in order to advance.
☆ U.S. Soccer Deletes Social-Media Post That Erased Emblem From Iranian Flag
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
DOHA, Qatar—With the U.S. and Iran set to play a high-stakes match in the World Cup here on Tuesday, the U.S. soccer federation took to social media to make what it said was a statement of support for protesters inside Iran: an altered version of the Iranian flag. Then, Sunday afternoon, the team deleted the post, which wasn’t run past U.S. players or coaches and inflamed tensions with the Iranians ahead of a decisive showdown on the field.
☆ Iran Strengthens Military Presence on Iraq Border in Push Against Kurdish Groups
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran is deploying armored and special units along its western border to prevent the infiltration of Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraq, a top commander of the Revolutionary Guard said Friday, exacerbating the risk of a wider military conflict in the volatile area. The deployment follows an intensification of Tehran’s response to protests sweeping the country, particularly in the Kurdish border areas, which have experienced some of the most consistent antigovernment rallies. Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman whose death in police custody in mid-September sparked the unrest, was born in Kurdistan.
☆ U.N. to Investigate Iran’s Alleged Human-Rights Violations During Protests
  + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted to investigate alleged human-rights abuses by Iranian authorities that have occurred during the two-month-old protest movement that has swept the country. At a special session in Geneva, a majority of the council on Thursday voted in favor of establishing an independent fact-finding mission to look into alleged human-rights violations in Iran since the outbreak of the protests in mid-September, including “the gender dimensions of such violations.”
☆ Iran Soccer Players Remain Silent During Their National Anthem at World Cup
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s soccer team chose not to sing the Islamic Republic’s national anthem before their opening World Cup match against England on Monday, in an apparent show of solidarity with a monthslong rights movement sweeping across the country. The defiant act came after the team’s captain Ehsan Hajsafi on Sunday expressed support for those who had lost loved ones during the recent unrest, which began in mid-September after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s morality police. More than 300 people have died since then as the government used force to break the protest movement that has now morphed into broader calls to overthrow the Islamic leadership.
☆ Iran Hands Out More Death Sentences to Protesters
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran sentenced three more protesters to death on Wednesday, heightening fears that the government will resort to executions to intimidate Iranians from rallying against the country’s clerical leadership. The three unidentified individuals were found guilty of corruption on earth or waging war against God for alleged offenses that included killing or injuring security forces, damaging public property and endangering national security, according to the judiciary’s news agency, Mizan.
☆ Iran’s Shopkeepers Strike in Support of Protest Movement
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iranian shopkeepers across the country closed their stores and went on a planned three-day strike starting Tuesday in solidarity with a monthslong protest movement demanding the ouster of the clerical leadership. The strikes this week are also meant to mark the three-year anniversary of a violent crackdown on protesters in 2019, the last time Iranians seriously challenged the ruling establishment.
☆ Iran’s Protesters Mark ‘Bloody Friday’ Deaths
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Demonstrators in southeastern Iran clashed with security forces as they gathered to mourn the deaths of dozens of people during the antigovernment protests that have swept across the country, in one of the most serious challenges to the clerical establishment in decades. More than 82 people died on Friday, Sept. 30, as security forces cracked down on demonstrations in Sistan-Baluchistan, rights groups say. The province is one of the largest and poorest in Iran and home to an ethnic Sunni Muslim minority. In recent days, hundreds of people have gathered in the provincial capital of Zahedan to mark 40 days—an important period in Islamic mourning—since the incident, which protesters have called “Bloody Friday.”
☆ Russia, Iran Pledge to Deepen Ties Amid Ukraine War
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian security council, shook hands with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, in a photo released by Mr. Raisi’s office. Russia and Iran’s security chiefs pledged Wednesday to deepen the military cooperation between the two countries, further cementing ties that have seen Tehran supply drones to bolster Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. During a meeting in Tehran, Russian security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev and his Iranian counterpart Ali Shamkhani said they would jointly fight what they called Western interference in their countries, and expand economic ties in a mutual effort to evade sanctions.
☆ Denmark Prime Minister Poised for Re-Election Amid Surging Inflation, War in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
COPENHAGEN—Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen looked poised to win re-election by a razor-thin margin Tuesday in an election dominated by a cost-of-living crunch and a disruption in gas supplies from Russia, which had added pressure on her government already under fire for its order to cull millions of mink during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ms. Frederiksen’s Social Democrats won 27.5% of the vote, making it by far the largest of the 14 parties on the ballot. The center-left coalition backing her had gained 87 of the 90 mandates needed to win a majority after all the votes had been counted in metropolitan Denmark.
☆ Denmark Goes to the Polls as Inflation Surges Amid Russia’s War in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
COPENHAGEN—Danes are heading to the polls Tuesday as a cost-of-living crunch and a disruption in gas supplies from Russia combine to pressure a government already under fire for its order to cull millions of mink during the Covid-19 pandemic. The election is expected to upset the political landscape in the Scandinavian nation, political analysts say. Several new parties are challenging the traditional power brokers with calls for a new centrist coalition that would break with the leftwing and rightwing blocs that have dominated for decades.
☆ In Iran Protests, the Hijab Is the Red Line for Both Government and Women
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Earlier this year, Iranian authorities moved against what they saw as a disturbing trend: More women were refusing to wear a legally required headscarf, or hijab. President Ebrahim Raisi ordered tougher enforcement of the law to coincide with the government’s National Hijab and Chastity Day on July 12. The moves were accompanied by a series of arrests and triggered fury among Iranians who took to the street. Two months later, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly disrespecting the Islamic Republic’s dress code, and Iran exploded. Street protests are now entering their sixth week and have picked up steam in recent days, posing the strongest challenge to the Islamic Republic in more than a decade.
☆ Iranian Government Shifts Blame for Terrorist Attack to Protesters
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s top military commander on Thursday blamed protesters demonstrating against the country’s clerical rule for a deadly terrorist attack in southern Iran where a gunman killed 15 people, promising to punish anyone who threatened public security. The explicit linking of the protest movement and the terrorist attack, for which Iranian authorities have presented no evidence, could signal an even more brutal crackdown by security forces against demonstrations that appeared to kick into a new gear Wednesday with tens thousands of people filling the streets.
☆ Iranian Protesters Mark 40 Days of Mourning for Mahsa Amini
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Thousands of protesters gathered at a cemetery in Iran’s restive Kurdistan province to mourn Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death in police custody last month sparked demonstrations throughout the Islamic Republic. The gatherings took place on the 40th day since Ms. Amini’s death, a date of remembrance in Islamic tradition, despite warnings from authorities saying they wouldn’t permit processions marking her death.
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