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\u201cVideo shows security forces firing tear gas at protesters as Iran crackdown kills dozens,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 1-7-26.\u00a0 It looks like the killing has begun.\u00a0 “The protests are diffuse and largely leaderless, and the president’s efforts at mediation \u2014 and the killings and arrests by security forces \u2014 haven’t persuaded the demonstrators to stay off the streets.”<\/p>\n

\u201cReport: US demands Venezuela stop selling oil to Iran, China, Russia,\u201d<\/a> 1-7-26.\u00a0\u00a0The new VP has to decide whether to sever other ties to Iran.<\/p>\n

“Iran\u2019s top general warns US, Israel against ‘threatening rhetoric’ and protest support,”<\/a> I24, 1-7-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deep roots of Iran\u2019s economic crisis,\u201d<\/a> Engelsberg Ideas, 1-7-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran protests have put the country\u2019s political system on trial,\u201d<\/a> The Conversation, 1-7-26.<\/p>\n

11th Day.\u00a0 \u201cViolent clashes reported as Iran protests spread to more areas,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 1-7-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe protests have so far spread to 111 cities and towns across all 31 provinces, according to the US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA). It has reported that at least 34 protesters and four security personnel have been killed during the unrest, and that 2,200 protesters have been arrested. \u2026 Vice-President for Executive Affairs Mohammad Jafar Qaempanah said President Masoud Pezeshkian had ordered that “no security measures” be taken against peaceful protesters. “Those who carry firearms, knives and machetes and who attack police stations and military sites are rioters, and we must distinguish protesters from rioters,” he added. (keep in mind that the Basji and police are authorized to carry bicycle chains, clubs, machetes, etc, but are not considered rioters!) The protests have been the most widespread since an uprising in 2022 sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly. More than 550 people were killed and 20,000 detained in a violent crackdown on those protests by security forces, according to human rights groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVideos from multiple cities taken by protesters and passers-by showed crowds chanting \u201cDeath to the dictator,\u201d and \u201cFreedom, freedom, freedom,\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, we are all together.\u201d In many places protesters demanding the end of the nearly five-decade rule of the Islamic Republic targeted the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shouting, \u201cKhamenei is a murderer, his rule is void.\u201d\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cProtests Spread in Iran, and Crackdowns Escalate,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 1-7-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cVideo shows security forces firing tear gas at protesters as Iran crackdown kills dozens,\u201d NBC, 1-7-26.\u00a0 It looks like the killing has begun.\u00a0 “The protests are diffuse and largely leaderless, and the president’s efforts at mediation \u2014 and the killings and arrests by security forces \u2014 haven’t persuaded the demonstrators to stay off the streets.” … <\/p>\n

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