Iran

Iranian authorities said on Wednesday three people including a member of the security forces had been killed during unrest sweeping the country, as anger at ...

In Kermanshah, the city prosecutor said two people had been killed on Tuesday in riots. Hengaw has said they were killed when security forces opened fire. The police have denied harming her. "Some people clashed with police officers and as a result one of the police assistants was killed. An official quoted by IRNA said 15 protesters were arrested in Shiraz. Two Kurdish human rights groups - Hengaw and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network - said a 43-year-old man was killed by security forces' gunfire on Tuesday in Urmia, a city in the western Azerbaijan province.

An Iranian hacktivist group says it has started its cyber operations against the Islamic Republic in solidarity with the ongoing protests across Iran over ...

“This was the last straw,” an altered voice on the video said of Amini’s death. On Tuesday and Wednesday some state-owned websites, including the website of the Central Bank of Iran, were targeted by hackers claiming to be from the ‘Anonymous’ hacking group. “The Iranian people are not alone”.

Mass protests and widespread outrage have embroiled Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, died on Friday while in the custody of the country's morality ...

[heart conditions](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/middleeast/iranian-police-say-death-of-mahsa-amini-unfortunate-intl/index.html). [temple school](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62967014) in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, killing at least 12 people— [six](https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-helicopter-attack-kills-several-children/a-63174795) of whom were children—and wounding nearly 20 more; 15 others disappeared. In stifling protests, officials employed tear gas and lethal force in certain regions, Human Rights Watch [said](https://www.hrw.org/breaking-news/2022/09/19/iranian-crackdown-after-woman-dies-police-custody). [World leaders](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-calls-for-probe-into-iranian-womans-death-amid-protests/2022/09/20/e833ae3e-38cf-11ed-b8af-0a04e5dc3db6_story.html) widely condemned Tehran, with the United Nations’ top acting human rights official Nada Al-Nashif [calling](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/09/mahsa-amini-acting-un-human-rights-chief-urges-impartial-probe-death-iran) for an independent investigation into her death. [morality police](https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-arrests-dubai-united-arab-emirates-00a1edd435a76e1fcf35d2c69267515f). Secretary of State Antony Blinken [urged](https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1572022270314553344) Tehran “to end its systemic persecution of women and to allow peaceful protest.” The boat had come from Lebanon and was headed toward Italy, authorities told the Associated Press. “We are facing devastating floods beyond our control,” Yusuf Sani Babura, the head of the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, told the Associated Press. The floodwaters have submerged land and crops, intensifying concerns of food shortages. Others chanted “death to the dictator” and “Being killed for scarves? [morality police](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/world/middleeast/iran-protests-mahsa-amini.html) and end the country’s [hijab law](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/20/iran-mahsa-amini-death-hijab-protest/), with protesters defiantly setting fire to their [headscarves](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62967381). [said](https://www.hrw.org/breaking-news/2022/09/19/iranian-crackdown-after-woman-dies-police-custody) in a statement.

Foreign Office Minister Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has issued a statement following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran following her arrest for alleged dress code violations is shocking. The use of violence in response to the expression of fundamental rights, by women or any other members of Iranian society, is wholly unjustifiable. Foreign Office Minister Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has issued a statement following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

Internet blackouts and Instagram blocks also reported amid anger after 22-year-old woman's death in custody.

During her detention, she said, she “had suffered physical and psychological torture that remains with me to this day … In a CBS interview, Raisi claimed further investigations were required to determine if the Holocaust happened. I still believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this goal.” On Wednesday, the country’s supreme leader gave a televised speech in which he did not mention the protests but warned how young people should not “fall for western powers’ deception”. And a Kurdish human rights group, Hengaw, said two more people had been killed by police, raising the claimed death toll since Amini’s death to six. No meeting is planned between Raisi and the US president, Joe Biden.