Australian Senator Raff Ciccone, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security and a co-sponsor of a bipartisan Senate motion condemning Iran’s crackdown on protests, said Australia was standing firmly with the people of Iran.
The Australian Senate on Thursday passed a motion condemning Iran’s crackdown on nationwide anti-government protests that began in late December, citing killings, mass arrests and internet blackouts imposed on civilians.
Iranians’ chants against the Islamic Republic—muted for now by brute force—are viewed in Turkey not as a struggle for freedom but as a geopolitical risk from migration and militancy.
Turkish intelligence arrested six people over a suspected Iran-linked espionage cell accused of gathering sensitive military and security information, the Daily Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The United States has deported three former members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a post on X.
Iran has deployed a nationwide militarized crackdown to scotch dissent and obscure the scale of its mass killings of protestors earlier this month, rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a report on Friday.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said democratic governments must raise the cost for Iran’s rulers to stay in power in an interview with Iranian activist Masih Alinejad.
Australian police have charged a Queensland PhD candidate with preparing a terrorist act after alleging he planned to throw a Molotov cocktail into an Australia Day crowd on the Gold Coast, in an attack authorities say was intended to spark unrest.
Iranians abroad staged at least 168 protests across 30 countries and 73 cities, turning the uprising inside Iran into a global wave of demonstrations that surged after internet shutdowns.
Comments by British musician Roger Waters saying Iranians do not seek regime change triggered a wave of criticism from Iranian social media users, with some circulating edited images portraying him as a cleric.
Public pressure for a US military strike on Iran has sharpened as President Donald Trump threatens action but holds back, leaving many Iranians torn between demanding intervention and fearing that continued delay will only extend repression and bloodshed.
Iran's historic Lion and Sun flag has had a resurgence with latest round of widespread protests after nearly half a century of absence from the country's official identity.
Nationwide protests in Iran stretched into their 13th consecutive day on Friday as demonstrators returned to the streets for a second night following a call by exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, with authorities enforcing a sweeping internet blackout and threatening severe punishment.
As Venezuela enters a volatile phase following Nicolas Maduro’s capture by US forces over the weekend, Iran’s strategic investments in the country’s oil refining sector are facing a sudden and uncertain reckoning.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Venezuelan counterpart Ivan Gil Pinto in a phone call that Tehran supports the people and the elected government of Venezuela, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.
Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday called the nationwide protests the work of foreign-backed agitators and urged a harsher crackdown, in his first public speech since demonstrations began seven days ago
US President Donald Trump warned that the United States of America would intervene if Iranian authorities violently kill peaceful protesters, saying on Truth Social the US is “locked and loaded.”
US President Donald Trump warned on Friday that the United States is “locked and loaded” if Iranian authorities use lethal force against protesters.
Canada on Wednesday rejected Iran’s decision to designate the Royal Canadian Navy as a terrorist organization, calling the move baseless and politically motivated and reaffirming its sanctions and human rights pressure on Tehran.
Iran’s foreign ministry said Tehran has designated Canada’s navy a “terrorist organization,” in retaliation for Ottawa’s decision to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity.
Western hostility toward Tehran stems from its challenge to the global order rather than its nuclear program, Iran’s supreme leader said, arguing that the core dispute is ideological.
Tehran is prepared to step in to protect Iraq’s political system from collapse if formally requested, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq said on Friday.