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Former government spokesman Ali Rabiei has warned that there might be "bloody confrontations" ahead as Iran's nationwide uprising rages on for seven weeks.

The nationwide antigovernment protests in Iran continued Sunday with intense clashes in the Kurdish-majority city of Marivan following the death of another young Kurdish woman.

A top aide to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says the Islamic Republic’s establishment is still undefeated but it has received a blow from the protest movement.

An expert says antigovernment protests and strikes at Iran’s universities and schools show the regime's failure to instill its ideology in over four decades.

Hardliners are blaming the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani for failure to suppress protests and demanding his removal.

A group of 227 parliament members in Iran has called on the Judiciary to issue death sentences for people arrested during the ongoing antigovernment protests.

Outraged by the killing of a Kurdish female university student, the people of the western city of Marivan have poured into streets chanting “Death to Khamenei.”

Germany and eight other EU member states plan to impose a new set of sanctions on individuals and organizations helping the Islamic Republic in its crackdown on dissent.

Several senior members of the Iranian American Medical Association have announced their resignation over the IAMA's refusal to support antigovernment protests.

An Iranian soldier has opened fire on personnel at a police station in Bampur in the flashpoint province of Sistan and Baluchestan killing four on Sunday.

Iranians living abroad in solidarity with protesters in Iran once again held antigovernment demonstrations in major world cities.

Some of Iran's relatively moderate political figures seem to be advising the government to find ways to end political deadlock and the dangerous popular uprising.

A leading Sunni cleric's popularity has been on the rise in Iran even among the Shiite majority since the start of nationwide protests in mid-September.

US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley has rejected a claim by Iran's foreign minister that Tehran supplied drones to Russia prior to its invasion of Ukraine.

Iran's battered currency, the rial, was in a freefall on Saturday, hitting a historic low of more than 360,000 against the US dollar amid continuing protests.

The anonymous group calling itself Tehran Youths has once again issued a call for protests in different neighborhoods of the capital and other cities.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested a new satellite-carrying rocket on Saturday, state media reported, a development likely to anger the United States.

The Islamic Republic has upped the ante against the Sunni cleric of Zahedan for his harsh criticism of the brutal and non-democratic approach of the government to protests.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says “the plots” the United States had previously developed and used against Syria and Libya have failed in Iran.

Iranian authorities try to present protesters killed by security forces as their own supporters who fell victim to the opposition or “impersonating policemen.”

Students at various universities across Iran have announced that they will go on strike and refuse to attend classes until their imprisoned colleagues are freed.