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Kourosh Ziabari explains that despite their differences, there was a new-found unity among the Iranian diaspora following Mahsa Amini’s killing. However, cracks have formed following calls for further sanctions and cuts to diplomatic relations.
The protests that erupted across Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini pose a major threat to the Islamic regime. After decades of repression and corruption, Khamenei will find it difficult to quell the current unrest with force alone.
The wave of protests in Iran following Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini’s death has inspired global action, but it is vital that opposing state control over women’s bodies in all its forms remains central in our solidarity, explains Shahed Ezaydi.
With growing protest in Israel over his judicial coup, Netanyahu went on a US tour in a bid to both silence criticism & strengthen Israel normalisation. Unfortunately, he faced little accountability along the way, writes Richard Silverstein.
Israel’s UN representative, Gilad Erdan, who staged a one-man protest supposedly defending Iranian women’s rights at the UN, only reinforced the colonial state’s hypocrisy as tortures, imprisons & kills Palestinian women, argues Farrah Koutteineh.
Iranians were already divided on many lines before mass protests erupted in 2022. As demands by demonstrators continue to be ignored amid state repression, old cracks are resurfacing to the detriment of pro-democracy efforts, writes Kourosh Ziabari.
The tendency of Iranian hardliners to demonise those that engage with the West while still relying on comparisons with the US to justify their rule when it favours them reveals both hypocrisy and incompetence, writes Kourosh Ziabari.
Despite months of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests demanding an end to the compulsory hijab, the Iranian government is still pursuing new and repressive ways to enforce it, punishing those who don’t comply, writes Kourosh Ziabari.
Amid a wave of attacks on embassies in Tehran, the Islamic Republic has done little to protect its diplomatic missions, signalling its indifference to fostering global ties while its citizens pay the price, writes Kourosh Ziabari.
After having their rights and freedoms sidelined for decades, the women leading Iran's feminist revolution draw on the resistance of their ancestors to envision a new future for themselves and their country, writes Katy Shahandeh.