Tens of thousands of people protested for the 14th straight night in more than 100 Iranian cities as authorities appeared to be intensifying their crackdown, and US President Donald Trump led an intensification of pressure on Tehran.
Protesters took to the streets of Tehran on January 9 for the 13th consecutive night of anti-government demonstrations that have spread across the country. News of the latest protests was limited by an Internet blackout, a move Amnesty International said was meant to conceal human rights abuses.
Protests in Iran have grown to their biggest in several years as crowds flood streets in major cities, small towns, and neighborhoods across Tehran but Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remained defiant on January 9.
Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Hudson Institute and a former aide to US Senator Ted Cruz, tells RFE/RL about what China is learning from the US strike and what it means for Beijing as it looks to compete with the United States around the globe.
RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has interviewed Jack Goldstone, one of the world's leading scholars of revolutions and social change, about the antiestablishment protests in Iran.
Dozens of protesters have been killed in a brutal government crackdown on ongoing antiestablishment demonstrations in Iran. RFE/RL's Radio Farda has profiled some of those killed, which include children.
Iran is witnessing the largest antiestablishment protests since the latest round of demonstrations erupted on December 28. As the protests snowball, the tactics of the protesters are also shifting.
Videos shared with RFE/RL's Radio Farda on January 8 show mass protests taking place across the Iranian capital. Meanwhile, observers were reporting Internet outages across the country, blocking citizens from sharing information about the ongoing unrest.
Anti-government protesters in Iran's Fars Province toppled a statue honoring deceased Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, the former head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), as demonstrations continued for an 11th night on January 7.
The ongoing antiestablishment protests in Iran are gaining momentum, nearly two weeks after they erupted. In recent days, the demonstrations have spread to new cities and attracted bigger crowds.
As nationwide protests continued for an 11th night across Iran, protesters in Mashhad tore down the national flag and ripped it to shreds.
The US seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic dramatically raises the stakes in Washington’s naval blockade of Venezuela, blowing apart an apparent Kremlin strategy to reflag its shadow fleet ships to offer them protection -- as well as stoking wider tensions with Moscow.
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