American university professors demand Biden take ‘urgent action’ amid Iran’s protest crackdown
The Washington Times, November 2, 2022
Thousands of university professors are calling on the White House to hold Tehran’s hardline regime accountable as Iranian security forces crack down on student protestors.
In a letter to President Biden this week, more than 2,000 faculty from universities throughout the U.S. urged the administration to take “urgent action” amid reports of brutal attacks and the arrest of thousands of Iranian students by regime security forces in response to widespread protests sparked by the mid-September death of Mahsa Amini.
“Iran has a rich history of student movements who have been at the forefront of the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom and democracy, both under the dictatorship of the Shah and the current totalitarian theocracy,” the professors wrote. Read More
As unrest grips Iran’s schools, the government is going after children
The Washington Post, November 1, 2022
Across Iran, schoolgirls have defiantly taken off their headscarves, stomped on pictures of the supreme leader and chanted for freedom, producing some of the most iconic images from the country’s anti-government uprising. Now, the state is coming for them.
Many families fear sending their children to school, afraid they could be surveilled, beaten, detained or disappeared, rights groups and Iranians told The Washington Post. Iran’s clerical leaders are betting the crackdown on schools will help quell the unrest, now in its seventh week, but risk further radicalizing the public against them. Read More
White House moves to punish Iran at the UN amid calls for response to Mahsa Amini protests
Washington-Tehran gulf deepens as nuclear negotiations stall and unrest spreads across Iran
Independent, November 2, 2022
The divide between Washington and Tehran is growing as the White House announced on Wednesday that it would seek Iran’s removal from a key United Nations council in response to a crackdown against women’s rights protesters in the country.
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Twitter that the Biden administration would seek that Iran be ousted from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the body’s leading watchdog on women’s rights. It’s a move that will have little global impact beyond embarrassing the Iranian government at a time when it appears to be at its least stable point in recent memory and is grappling with growing protests spearheaded by younger Iranians around the country. Read More
Iran’s Currency Hits New Low Against Dollar Amid Unrest
VOA News, November 1, 2022
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES —
Iran’s currency dropped to its lowest value against the dollar on Tuesday, after weeks of nationwide unrest roiling the country. A stalemate in negotiations to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers has also weighed heavily on the rial.
Traders in Tehran exchanged the rial at 338,000 to the dollar, up from 332,200 on Monday. Iran’s currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of the 2015 nuclear accord that lifted international sanctions in exchange for tight curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program. Read More
Video shows Iranian security forces beating and shooting man as officials order investigation
CNN, November 2, 2022
CNN — Iranian police said they would investigate an incident caught on camera showing security forces attacking and shooting a man, as a leading rights group condemned what it called the “crisis of impunity” in the country.
The video shows a number of security officers beating a man who lay on the ground in front of a residential building, before one officer points his gun at the man and shoots. The person filming the video is heard saying, “They shot the guy with shotgun pellets … they must have killed the guy.” Read More
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