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State media quoted Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei as saying that protests were planned and not staged by "ordinary Iranians", in his first reaction to ongoing unrest.

An organized violent government attack on protesting students in Tehran’s Sharif University Sunday has heightened tensions in Iran that can lead to more unrest.

While assessments by Iran’s intelligence and security organs show serious dissatisfaction among young people, they still call for a harsh response to protests.

The United States said Sunday that reports from Iranian sources of a transfer of funds related to the release of Bagher (Baquer) Namazi and to a furlough for his son Siamak Namazi are categorically false.

Protests resumed on Sunday after the busiest day of demonstrations both in Iran and abroad on Saturday, with parliament and IRGC officials trying to have a say.

Leading Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid said Sunday that plainclothes security agents fired live bullets at the heads and hearts of unarmed people.

Iran’s official government news agency confirmed Sunday that Tehran will receive $7 billion of its frozen funds for a prisoner exchange deal with the United States.

Israel has finally given its green light to a draft US-brokered deal demarcating a maritime border with Lebanon that may lead to cooperation in gas production with Lebanon.

The Canadian premier said Saturday that people around the world are standing in solidarity with Iranians protesting the death of Mahsa Amini and standing up for women’s rights.

The Islamic Republic’s parliament has finally convened to discuss and whitewash Mahsa Amini’s death in custody, and the ensuing protests by blaming “enemies.”

Canada-based activist Hamed Esmaeilion, whose daughter and wife were killed by the IRGC, has called on the international community to downgrade diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic.

A hacking group has shared the alleged identities of the hijab police team that arrested Mahsa Amini, the woman whose death has sparked an uprising in Iran.

Iranian diaspora communities and human rights activists have launched unprecedented rallies in over 150 cities throughout the world against the Islamic Republic.

Iran's regime faces a multi-flank attack today, with student protests turning into general unrest, and rallies taking place in 150 cities around the world.

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American hostage has been let out of prison in Tehran, as a semi-official Iranian source said there is a prisoner deal with the United States.

Amid protests in Iran and abroad against the Islamic Republic, Iraqis held a demonstration Saturday against Tehran’s interference in the country and recent attacks on Iraq.

Iranian dissident figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi has expressed support for the current protests across Iran, calling on the military to stand behind the nation.

The Islamic Republic found itself under a multi-flank attack Saturday, with university students across Iran protesting, and rallies taking place around the world.

Business owners and merchants have announced strikes in Kordestan province and other western provinces with Kurdish population, such as East and West Azarbaijan and Ilam.

The intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan was shot dead in the provincial capital Zahedan.

A group of seminary students and teachers in Iran said Friday that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was never fit to be the Guardian of the people and a ruler.