By Pooya Stone
During recent protests in Iran, protesters time and again targeted banks and financial institutes and set them ablaze. However, there is a question of why are the Iranian people torching these centers? And eventually, aren’t people supposed to answer their economic grievances through these financial systems?
Be Pooya Stone
Gasoline in Iran went up between 50 to 300 percent in price and began to be rationed on 15 November. How does this affect the livelihood of the Iranian people?
Be Pooya Stone
On Friday, November 22, 2019, at 3:00 p.m. CET, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)’s representatives held an online press conference about the recent protests in Iran titled, “Iran Uprising: Latest Developments and Reports.” The representative of the NCRI in the UK Ms. Dowlat Nowruzi and member of the NCRI foreign affairs committee Mr. Shahin Qobadi presented a picture of the current situation inside Iran.
By Jubin Katiraie
The experience of the 2018 uprising in Iran had shown that when the fire of outrage, public hatred against Iran’s oppressive clerical system and calls for its overthrow arise, these would quickly ignite the whole country.
By Jubin Katiraie
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is “deeply concerned” over the Iranian authorities’ violent crackdown on ongoing peaceful protests that began in the country on Friday.
By Jubin Katiraie
Amnesty International believes that over 100 protesters have been killed by the Iranian security forces since Friday.
The reaction of the Iranian people to the rise of gasoline price has swept across Iranian cities and shaken the mullahs’ dictatorship. The regime’s repressive forces and ringleaders used direct firing to block protests and cut down internet lines so that news of the uprising would not leak to the resistance media and would not receive worldwide coverage.
By Pooya Stone
Since midnight November 15, tens of thousands of Iranians poured in the streets across the country following the government acknowledged gas prices hikes. A sharp increase in fuel prices came amidst terrible economic conditions due to systematic corruption and mismanagement.
