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1 month ago | 
berkshireeagle.com | Leily Nikounazar |Lynsey Chutel
A popular Iranian musician who was arrested two years ago during a crackdown on artists and academics has been punished with 74 lashes in what activists said Thursday was a bid to humiliate him for supporting a nationwide uprising. The musician, Mehdi Yarrahi, 43, was subjected to the flogging by officers of the Morality Security Prosecutor's Office in Tehran on Wednesday, his lawyer Zahra Minuei said on social media.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Erika Solomon |Leily Nikounazar
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said negotiating with the United States was "unwise, unintelligent, and not honorable," just days after President Trump said he was willing to revive negotiations with Tehran. But Mr. Khamenei stopped short of ordering Iran's government, which for months has sent signals that it is interested in negotiations, not to engage with Washington.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Leily Nikounazar |Arash Khamooshi
It chose the latter, as turning gas off to residential units would come with serious safety hazards and would cut off the primary source of heat for most Iranians. "The policy of the government is to prevent at all costs cutting gas and heat to homes," Seyed Hamid Hosseini, a member of the Chamber of Commerce's energy committee, said in telephone interview.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Leily Nikounazar
Iranians watched in astonishment over the weekend as the reign of their nation's longtime political and military ally, Bashar al-Assad, came to a crashing end. By Sunday, the reckoning had arrived as officials and pundits recognized that Iran was taken by surprise, and they hurried to distance Iran from a tyrant the country had supported in maintaining power.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Leily Nikounazar
For two decades, the regime repeatedly threw him into jail and detained him in psychiatric institutions, but the more Iran tried to silence him, the more outspoken Kianoosh Sanjari became Farnaz Fassihi, Leily Nikounazar New York Published 21.11.24, 10:15 AM Iranian journalist and human rights activist Kianoosh Sanjari. File picture The Iranian government first arrested him when he was a teenager protesting a crackdown on student activists. He remained undeterred.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Leily Nikounazar
The Iranian government first arrested him when he was a teenager protesting a crackdown on student activists. He remained undeterred. For two decades, the regime repeatedly threw him into jail and detained him in psychiatric institutions, but the more Iran tried to silence him, the more outspoken Kianoosh Sanjari became. A tall, lanky man known for his dark suits and striped ties, he recounted the horrors he had experienced in interviews and videos posted on his social media accounts.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Leily Nikounazar |Richard Pérez-Peña
Iran on Monday executed an Iranian-born opponent of the government who had German citizenship and lived in the United States, the country's judiciary announced, four years after Iranian agents abducted him in Dubai, according to members of his family. Iranian authorities had accused the man, Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, of helping orchestrate a deadly terrorist bombing in Iran in 2008, a charge he and his family denied.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Claire Moses |Leily Nikounazar
Iranians voiced a sense of anxiety and uncertainty on Saturday after a round of retaliatory strikes by Israel on their country, but some said they felt a dim hope about what may lie ahead. "Today at work, everyone was speaking of the attacks," said Soheil, a 37-year-old engineer who lives in the central city of Isfahan. His colleagues saw some reason for hope that a wider war could be averted, given that Israel attacked only military targets on Saturday, he added.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Leily Nikounazar
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday Prayer for the first time in years, delivering a sermon during a memorial service in Tehran for Hezbollah's leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading Friday Prayer in Tehran in a photograph released by his office. Credit...
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
gvwire.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Leily Nikounazar
Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, ran as a reformist candidate. But when he announced Sunday that his Cabinet nominees included several conservatives and only one woman, he faced a fierce backlash, with a high-profile vice president resigning and political allies accusing him of abandoning campaign promises to bring change.
