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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
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The Guardian
14 Oct 2022
Analysis by Patrick Wintour|Diplomatic correspondent
A shaken Iranian political elite is struggling with whether to frame the protests shaking the country as primarily the product of a covert foreign intelligence conspiracy, or instead a dangerous warning that the values of the Islamic Revolution have lost sway over a new ge-neration infected by a western controlled internet, analysts say. The debate, in which there are many shades of grey, matters since it determines whether the response should be a security crackdown coupled with retribution against the outside forces of disruption or some kind of dialogue with the largely leaderless youth. If the first course is adopted, as is likely if the protests amplify, the already narrowing space for the west to revive the Iran nuclear deal after the US midterm elections correspondingly declines. It will also be a test of whether this Iranian government is capable of reform. Some Iran observers are struck by the lenience - by the Iranian state's brutal standards - with which the regime is acting, pointing out that the 200 reported dead is low in comparison with the 400 killed in a mat-ter of days in the 2009 protests, when hundreds of people were also tortured in Kahrizak prison. It is only in Iranian Kurdistan that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, facing what they deem sepa-ratist groups, are exploiting the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. She died after being arrested by morality police last month, sparking the current wave of protests across Iran. One reason for the uncertainty is that the regime believes these leaderless protests will peter out. They claim only 80,000 people have been out on the street, and that the protesters lack the critical mass to create a revolution or a leader overseas - an assessment shared in most western capitals, however much leaders sympathise with the demands for greater personal freedom for women. <There is no Mandela, no Aung San Suu Kyi>, said one western observer.>>
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/irans-youthful-protests-stoke-uncertainty-among-political-elite
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: No there's no Mandela nor Kyi but there are 80.000 and everyday more and mostly Women who have One Voice: 'Women Life Freedom'

The Guardian
14 Oct 2022
By Patrick Wintour|Diplomatic correspondent
<<Authorities in Iran forced to remove poster of women in hijabs after PR fiasco.
The Iranian authorities suffered a PR fiasco after being forced to take down a giant billboard in a central square in Tehran when women in the poster, or their relatives, objected to being depicted as supporters of the government and the compulsory-wearing of the hijab. The billboard controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was a montage of about 50 Iranian women wearing the hijab under the slogan <Women of my Land>. It was taken down within 24 hours after at least three of the women pictured said they ob-jeted to their image being misused. Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, a multiaward-winning actor was the first to protest, releasing a video. Not wearing the hijab, she said: <I am not considered a woman in a land where young children, little girls and freedom-loving youths are killed in its fields.> <I am Mahsa's mother, I am Sarina's mother. I am the mother of all the children who were killed in this land. I am the mother of all the land of Iran, not a woman in the land of murderers,> she added, referring to Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman whose death in police custody sparked protests across Iran, and Sarina Esmaeilzadeh, 16, who Amnesty International has said was killed by security forces at a protest. Soon after the video was released, the film director Marzieh Boroumand and the mountaineer Parvaneh Kazemi also denounced the use of their image on the billboard. Boroumand wrote on her Instagram account: <Gentlemen, remove my photo from the wall under which you oppressed children and young people. I will never allow any group inside or outside the country to use my cultural identity for their own benefit.> She had previously posted a picture of Amini, along with the words: I mourn for Mahsa and for all the values that we have lost in the name of religion.>
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The son of the late actor Homa Rousta also objected to the <shameful> use of his mother's image and called for it to be removed.>>
Read all here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/iranian-regime-poster-women-in-hijabs-pr-fiasco-taken-down-protests-misuse-of-image

The Guardian
13 Oct 2022
By Diane Taylor
<<'It's a revolution': Iranian women in UK believe protests will bring freedom.
Iranian and Kurdish women living in the UK believe the prospect of freedom for millions of women in their home country has never been greater following protests after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested in Tehran for not wearing her headscarf correctly. Many of those who fled the Iranian regime because of its attacks on human and women's rights are working hard behind the scenes to support women in their home country to expose the abuses in the hope of encouraging the international community to act to bring about regime change. They say the demonstrations inside Iran and around the world, in which at least 185 people are reported to have been killed, are different from previous protests and this time there is a real possibility change will come. After Amini's death, Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh, both 16, have also lost their lives in anti-regime protests. The international chess judge Shohreh Bayat, 35, who lives in London, urged the international community to act after Amini's death on 16 September. <This is not a protest any more. It's a revolution. It is very important for the world to stand on the right side of history. We are fighting for freedom and for women's and human rights,> she said.
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An Iranian feminist blogger in the UK who has to conceal her identity in order to protect her family who are still in Iran, is doing all she can with her blog, which is read covertly by many Iranian women, to promote their fight for freedom. She blogs as RM on Telegram and is constantly having to resurrect her blog when the Iranian authorities intercept it and close it down.

<One spark can create a big fire,> she said. <Young people in Iran are saying: 'We must rise up now or we will be the next Mahsa.' I'm optimistic that if the regime does not go today it will go one day. They cannot keep harassing women like this and get away with it. Women are standing up for the right to lead the normal life that women in other parts of the world can lead.> >>
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/revolution-iranian-women-uk-believe-protests-will-bring-freedom

France 24
13 Oct 2022
<<Iran: How engaged are young people in the protests?
Nearly four weeks after Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, was detained in Tehran for <inappropriate attire>, the protests show no sign of abating in a bold challenge to Iran's clerical rulers. How engaged are young people in these protests? France 24 Ershad Alijani tells us more.>>
Watch the video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20221013-anger-over-mahsa-amini-s-death-persists-despite-crackdown

The Guardian
Supported by The Guardian
By Rosie Swash
13 Oct 2022
<<How three Iranian women spurred mass protests against hardline regime.
Huge bravery of Sepideh Rashno, Mahsa Amini and Nika Shakarami against state restrictions on women's freedoms may be catalyst for change.
In July, a video began circulating online of an altercation between two women on a Tehran bus. One, in full hijab, attacks the other, a 28-year-old called Sepideh Rashno, for not wearing a hijab, mandated under Iranian law and punishable with a fine or even prison. In the weeks leading up to the incident, footage of similar episodes had been spreading with increased frequency online, evidence of the growing pressure being exerted on women by the regime. But this particular video went viral, and led to Rashno being arrested, abused and forced into making an apology on state television. For a few weeks, Rashno was the face of a crackdown on women's freedom in Iran that has intensified, sometimes violently, in the last year. Her arrest was <a turning point for many women who had been resisting the morality police and fighting the mandatory hijab and slowly pushing the limits of what the state considered proper attire, and slowly but gradually making progress in pushing those limits> says Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian journalist and political analyst. <But this was a reminder of the state's violent enforcement of the mandatory hijab on women. It was seen as a message to those who resist the state's mandatory dress code. But it had the opposite effect, and anger and fury that had been slowly building up over decades eventually exploded with the subsequent death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police,> she says. When news broke that the 22-year-old had died after being arrested for wearing her headscarf <improperly>, protests that began outside the hospital where she died spread across Iran within a week. Women burned their headscarves and cut their hair, leading the protests in which thousands of Iranians demanded the end of Ayatollah Khamenei's rule and chanted Amini's name. <The horrific murder of Mahsa exposed the brutal reality of life under the Islamic republic,> says Kasra Aarabi, the Iran programme lead at the Tony Blair Institute, the former British prime minister's thinktank. Mortazavi says: <And you can see that these protests - triggered by what happened to Mahsa - are distinctively anti-regime.> Women have been on the frontlines of protests in Iran before,> says Aarabi. <But this isn't about reform, it's about outright regime change. Because the compulsory hijab, in the Islamic republic, is not just a piece of cloth. It's one of the key pillars of the ideology of this regime.> One of the most striking images of these protests is the sight of schoolgirls ejecting officials from school grounds, or hanging signs that read <woman, life, freedom> in classrooms. <It takes immense courage and bravery for any woman to do this, but especially for young girls who are risking arrest, expulsion from school, and even death when joining these protests,> says Mortazavi. Among the hundreds of people who have reportedly been killed by state security during these protests is Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old whose death has been shrouded in dis-information. Confusing and contradictory details emerged about how and when she had died, and her family have described being threatened for going public about her death.Her mother told journalists she received a call from Nika who said she was running away from security officials before her phone went dead. The family went looking for her at hospitals and police stations but were told they had no one with that name. Meanwhile, videos of her singing and joking around were shared around the world. Nine days later, the police showed images to her mother to confirm that the dead body in the photograph was Nika. <Her cheeks were broken. Her teeth were broken. She had received a severe blow behind her head, and her skull was dented,> her mother said. >>
Please read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/13/iran-women-sepideh-rashno-mahsa-amini-nika-shakarami-mass-protests

France 24
13 Oct 2022
<<An official Iranian forensic investigation found Amini had died of a longstanding illness rather than reported beatings.Her family has denied the official version, stressing that their daughter was in perfect complaint against security officers involved in her arrest and detention. Amini's death sparked mass protests spearheaded by women taking to the streets chanting, <Zan, zendegi, azadi!> - women, life, freedom.
Young women, university students and even schoolgirls have since taken off their hijabs and faced off with security forces in the biggest wave of social unrest to grip Iran in almost three years. At least 108 people, including 28 children, have been killed and hundreds more detained and held mostly in adult prisons, according to human rights groups. The unrest has been particularly marked in Amini's western home province of Kurdistan as well as in the southeastern city of Zahedan, where demonstrations have erupted against a police officer accused of rape in a separate case.
Raisi accuses US of seeking to destabilise Iran
Gunshots were fired as Iranian security forces confronted protesters in the cities of Isfahan and Karaj and in Amini's hometown Saqez, in videos shared by two Norway-based human rights organisations.
<Death to the dictator,> shouted female students who had defiantly taken off their mandatory hijab headscarves as they marched down a Tehran street, in a video verified by AFP. <Shots were heard in Isfahan amid the nationwide protests and strikes>, Iran Human Rights (IHR) said of a video it tweeted, and in Saqez, according to the Kurdish rights group Hengaw, which reported that later <the security forces fled>. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday accused the US of resorting to a <policy of destabilisation> against the Islamic republic.
'Bloody crackdown' feared Activists in Tehran have called for protesters to turn out <in solidarity with the people of Sanandaj and the heroic people of Zahedan>. <We don't want spectators. Come and join us,> a group of mainly young women outside Tehran's Azad University sang in IHR footage verified by AFP. A man who asked not to be iden-tified told the BBC: <The atmosphere is quite tense and yet it is exciting. People are hopeful this time and we hope that a real change is just around the corner. I don't think people are willing to give up this time. You can hear some sort of protest everywhere, almost every night. That feels good, that feels really good.> >>
Read more here
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221013-one-month-after-mahsa-amini-s-arrest-iran-protests-take-deadly-toll 

France 24 | Text by France 24
12 Oct 2022
<<More than 100 dead in Iran crackdown on Mahsa Amini protests, rights group says.
At least 108 people have been killed in Iran's crackdown on more than three weeks of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, said Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights. The Iranian security forces also killed another 93 people during separate clashes in the city of Zahedan, in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, IHR said in a statement. Protests erupted across Iran on September 16, when Amini died three days after falling into a coma following her arrest in Tehran by the country's morality police for an alleged breach of Iran's strict dress code for women. The vio-lence in Zahedan erupted on September 30 during protests that were triggered by anger over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police commander in the region. Human rights groups also voiced alarm on Tuesday over the extent of the crackdown in Sanandaj, the capital of Amini's home province of Kurdistan in Iran's west. <The international community must prevent further killings in Kurdistan by issuing an immediate response,> IHR director Mahmood Amir-Moghaddam said in Wednesday's statement. IHR indicated its investigation into the extent of the <repression" in Kurdistan had been hampered by internet restrictions and warned of an <impending bloody crackdown> on demonstrators in the western province. <The city of Sanandaj in Kurdistan province has witnessed widespread protests and bloody crackdowns in the past three days,> IHR said, adding that its current death toll for the province excluded those killed in that period. The Olso-based group said it had so far recor-ded 28 deaths in Mazandaran province, 14 in Kurdistan, 12 in both Gilan and West Azerbaijan, and 11 in Tehran province, as well as deaths in 12 more provinces. It said the Iranian security forces had also arrested many children protesting on the streets and at schools in the past week. <Children have a legal right to protest, the United Nations has an obligation to defend children's rights in Iran by applying pressure on the Islamic republic,> said Amiry-Moghaddam. IHR said its toll also excluded six deaths that reportedly occurred during protests inside Rasht central prison in northern Iran on Sunday as it was still investigating the case. It said workers had also joined in nationwide strikes and protests at Asalouyeh petrochemical plant in Iran's southwest, Abadan in western Iran and Bushehr to the south.>>
France 24 with AFP
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221012-more-than-100-dead-in-iran-crackdown-on-mahsa-amini-protests-rights-group-says
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: I've been reporting about the Iranian' Womens Revolution since September 17th. 2022, the day Jhina Mahsa Amini was assasinated by the 'morality police' but since those were joined by the basji and the death toll 'till today actually is approx. 2.700 people, mostly women but also men and children.

The Guardian
11 Oct 2022
By Weronika Strzyzynska and Haroon Janjua
<<Iranian security forces intensify crackdown in Kurdistan.
Rights groups have sounded the alarm over an intensifying crack-down by Iranian security forces against protesters in the western province of Kurdistan, as Tehran summoned the British ambassador in response to UK sanctions against the morality police. Security forces in the provincial capital, Sanandaj, have used firearms and fired teargas <indiscriminately>, including into people's homes, Amnesty International reported. A female protester in the city told the Guardian that a <massacre> by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was taking place. <They have shut down the city and are slaughtering people inside with guns and bombs just because they are chanting for freedom,> she said. Despite the authorities' disruption of internet, videos showing apparent gunfire in Sanandaj have been posted online by the Norway-based human rights group Hengaw. Hengaw said Iranian war planes had arrived at the city's airport overnight and buses carrying special forces were on their way to the city from elsewhere in Iran. On Monday - as protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody entered their fourth week - Britain said it was imposing sanctions against the <morality police in its entirety>, as well as against Iran's police commander and the head of the Basij militia, linked to the Revolutionary Guards. The Iranian government responded by summoning the British ambassador to Iran, Simon Shercliff, to Tehran later the same day. Iran described the sanctions as <baseless> and accused the UK of interfering in its internal affairs. Despite the authorities' disruption of internet, videos showing apparent gunfire in Sanandaj have been posted online by the Norway-based human rights group Hengaw. Hengaw said Iranian war planes had arrived at the city's airport overnight and buses carrying special forces were on their way to the city from elsewhere in Iran. On Monday - as protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody entered their fourth week - Britain said it was imposing sanctions against the <morality police in its entirety>, as well as against Iran's police commander and the head of the Basij militia, linked to the Revolutionary Guards. The Iranian government responded by summoning the British ambassador to Iran, Simon Shercliff, to Tehran later the same day. Iran described the sanctions as ><baseless> and accused the UK of interfering in its internal affairs.
Protests have been especially intense in Sanandaj in Kurdistan, Amini's home region, where rights groups fear heavy casualties.
The New-York based Center for Human Rights in Iran said there was a risk of a similar situation in Sistan and Baluchistan province, in the south-east, where activists say more than 90 people have been killed since 30 September. <The ruthless killings of civilians by security forces in Kurdistan province, on the heels of the massacre in Sistan and Baluchistan province, are likely preludes to severe state violence to come,> its director, Hadi Ghaemi, told Agence France-Presse. In a new development on Monday, workers from Iran's oil industry joined the demonstrations. Footage posted on Twitter showed workers blocking the road to the Bushehr petrochemical plant in Assaluyeh, on the Gulf, and chanting <death to the dictator>. A regional official said the workers were protesting over wages and not the death of Mahsa Amini.
<The situation in Assaluyeh is really alarming,> the 23-year-old wife of an oil worker told the Guardian. <I am concerned about the safety of my husband. There is no way to communicate and reach him.> The woman, who said she had previously burned her hijab in protest over Amini's death, added: <We will throw the regime out through our continued struggle this time.> Iran has the fourth largest reserves of crude oil in the world and the industry is key to its economy. Strikes of oil workers were a major factor in the success of the 1979 revolution. <If these unrests continue and expand, especially if the energy sector joins the protests, the regime will irreversibly be in trouble,> Fatemeh Aman, senior fellow at the Washington based Middle East Institute, said from Erbil. <I don't know if at this point there is a will within the establishment to reconcile, but even if there is, bloody crackdowns on ethnic minorities [like in Sanandaj] will make any reconciliation almost certainly impossible.>
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<The EU agreed yesterday the technical aspects of a sanctions package that will target those behind the repression,> Colonna said on Tuesday.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/11/iran-alarm-raised-over-bloody-crackdown-on-protesters-in-kurdistan 

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