The niece of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is calling on people to pressure their governments to cut ties with Tehran over its violent suppression of anti-government protests. In a video posted online by her brother, Farideh Moradkhani, urged “conscientious people of the world” to support Iranian protesters. The...
The US Begins New Get-Tough Policy With Iran
The Iranian Government continues to aid Russia in the war against Ukraine, shoots and imprisons protesters, and now says it will continue its nuclear enrichment program. This has pretty much ended the White House’s hopes for diplomacy and has started a new era of confrontation, including imposing sanctions on Tehran....
Protest by Fresno Iranian Americans Keeps Focus on Brutality in Iran
In a continuing show of solidarity with the people of Iran, more than 200 Iranian-Americans from Fresno, Clovis, and Visalia marched Saturday in north Fresno, chanting "women, life, freedom," "democracy for Iran," and "down with the Islamist regime." It marked the eighth week of protests organized by the Iranian-American Alliance...
Fresno Protesters Continue Support of Iranian People’s Protest
It's been 50 days since a 22-year-old Iranian woman died after she was taken into custody when authorities said she was wearing a hijab incorrectly, and the protests of her death and of Iran's Islamist government are still continuing in north Fresno. About 100 men, women, and children gathered Saturday...
Local Iranian Americans Join in Global Solidarity Protest of Islamist Regime
Iranian Americans continued Sunday to join in worldwide protests calling for the overthrow of Iran's Islamist regime. About 200 protesters gathered for the fifth time in recent weeks in River Park to share in an international day of solidarity with the Iranian people, led by the Iranian-American Alliance of Fresno....
Who Is Leading the Crackdown on Iran’s Protests?
They show up at the first signs of protest in Iran — men in black, riding motorcycles, often wielding guns or batons. They are members of what's known as the Basij, paramilitary volunteers who are fiercely loyal to the Islamic Republic. The shock troops of the ayatollahs have taken on...
Protests Galvanize Iranians Abroad in Hope, Worry, and Unity
LONDON — As anti-government protests roil cities and towns in Iran for a fourth week, tens of thousands of Iranians living abroad have marched on the streets of Europe, North America, and beyond in support of what many believe to be a watershed moment for their home country. From those...
Protests in Iran Over Woman’s Death Reach Key Oil Industry
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Workers at the site of a major complex of refineries crucial for Iran's massive offshore natural gas field protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show. The demonstrations at Asaluyeh mark the first time the unrest surrounding the...
Iranian Women to Fresno Cousin: ‘If We Die, Don’t Cry for Me. Be My Voice.’
Shahnaz Tousinezhad left Iran for the United States in 1983, but like many expatriate Iranians, her heart has never left her homeland. She is grief-stricken over the cruelty that Iranians have been subjected to in the decades since the Muslim Shiite cleric-led regime began running the government. That cruelty...
Protests Intensify in Fresno, Around World Over Woman’s Death in Iranian Custody
Demonstrators gathered again Sunday at a major north Fresno intersection to speak out over the killing of a young Kurdish woman in Iran and that country's violent crackdown on protests there. The death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who was detained by Iran's morality police over an "improper"...