On the same day Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded judicial punishment for anyone who “disrupt[s]” Iran’s “economic security” by protesting, Iran’s judiciary head, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, said protesters arrested during these events could be punished “by execution.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader and head of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, demanded judicial punishment on Wednesday for anyone who “disrupt[s]” Iran’s “economic security” in the aftermath of protests over the tumbling value of the rial against the U.S. dollar.
Iranians entered the fourth day of protests on Wednesday after the rial hit a record low of 90,000 rials to one U.S. dollar on Sunday. Chants calling for the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly filled Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, the center of commerce in the bustling city, throughout the week.
Iran announced Monday that it is banning imports of over 1,300 products to prepare its economy for the reimposition of sanctions on its nation and the drop of its currency to record lows.
Contents: Massive Tehran riots strike deep into Iran government’s legitimacy; Tehran demonstrators attack Iran’s foreign policy; Brief generational history of Iran’s protests
Lebanon’s General Security agency is considering allowing Iranians into the country without stamping their passports, which has politicians concerned that this is reflective of Iran’s deepening influence over the nation’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blasted the United States on Wednesday over its immigration policies, claiming the United States, and the greater West, lacks “family values.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States is a failure and referred to the nation, as he has for decades, as the “Great Satan” during his annual Eid al-Fitr prayers in Tehran on Friday morning.
Iran’s nuclear chief said on Wednesday that a facility in the country’s Natanz nuclear plant, meant to build advanced centrifuges, will be completed in a month, and noted that the Islamic Republic is prepared to increase its uranium-enrichment capacity if the nuclear deal collapses.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday, highlighted Iran’s military capabilities and warned the United States that it would suffer the same deadly fate as Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein it ever attacks the Islamic Republic.
Mass anti-America protests are set to take place following Friday prayer this week in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s personal empire, effectively withdrawing the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday harshly rebuked the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or Iran nuclear deal, describing President Donald Trump’s pullout statement as “vulgar and commonplace.”
Iran’s ruling regime blasted the “unholy partnership” between the United States and Saudi Arabia on Monday, arguing it will bring “further instability, war, extremism and an arms race in the Middle East.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Muslims on Thursday to stand up against “imperialism, U.S. bullying,” and intimidators throughout the rest of the world.
The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that he hoped Syria’s army and its allies would drive the “occupying” U.S. troops out of the country and “liberate” Idlib from anti-Assad insurgents.
The chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee said this week that the popular messaging application Telegram, widely used by Iranians during the most recent uprisings which began on December 28, is “a security threat.”
WASHINGTON, DC – The Iranian regime released Imam Hussein al-Shirazi, the son of the famous Iranian Shiite Ayatollah Sadiq al-Shirazi, on Sunday after detaining him for 13 days.
In a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the White House Tuesday, President Donald Trump did not reveal whether he was considering recertifying the Iran deal when the decision reaches his desk in May, telling reporters, “you’ll see what happens.”
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, asserted that Riyadh will pursue nuclear weapons development if Iran possesses a nuclear bomb and reiterated his claim that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is “very much like Hitler” in a CBS interview to air on Sunday.
Imam Mohammad Tawhidi tells Breitbart News that “Khamenei is afraid of the ayatollahs” opposed to him and the Iranian regime.
A man wielding a large knife or machete and wearing a white shroud was reportedly shot in the legs Monday trying to break into President Hassan Rouhani’s office on Tehran’s Pasteur Street.
Video surfacing on social media reportedly shows an Iranian soccer stadium chanting “death to the dictator” in unison, a sign protests that the Islamic regime has failed to quell protests against its oppression.
A senior Iranian official warned Wednesday that “all options are on the table” for Iran if President Donald Trump chooses not to certify the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran on Friday.
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami warned the United States that it would “bear the consequences” of allegedly orchestrating anti-regime protests in the country, a talking point propagated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Although 2018 is only days old, an event which not only has potential to be the story of the year but also set a new directional compass for Middle East stability is reportedly losing momentum.
The government of state sponsor of terrorism Iran, in an apparent effort to distract from the financial woes and political unrest fueling rallies that have been raging for days, has organized anti-U.S., pro-Islamist demonstrations on its behalf.
As much as the Islamic regime in Iran may deny it, a serious problem is on its hands. The new generation of Iranians seeking economic stability and individual freedom lost its fear last week, taking the streets by the thousands and chanting, “We don’t want an Islamic republic.”
On Sunday, December 24, 2017, the citizens of Tehran sparked an uprising that has now spread to dozens of cities and towns across Iran.
In an interview with Voice of America published Monday, the State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Andrew Peek revealed that the Trump administration is considering more sanctions on Iran should the regime escalate violence against the current wave of peaceful protests.
The pro-Iranian state outlet Fars News Agency accused President Donald Trump of exploiting anti-Islamist protests in the nation with “outrageous and insulting” comments against the repressive regime, claiming, “the people of Iran don’t want Trump’s sympathy.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed unspecified “enemies of Iran” for the growing protests against his Islamic regime continuing Tuesday, implying protesters are receiving “money, weapons, politics and intelligence” from abroad.
Both President Donald Trump and the U.S. State Department responded on Friday to widespread protests against the Islamic dictatorship in Iran, urging Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to avoid human rights abuses against peaceful dissidents.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman recently compared the religious leadership of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei to Hitler in an interview with the New York Times.
Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani announced this weekend that he would not seek an extension of his term after November, stepping down amid an invasion of his territory by the Iraqi army and the Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
President Donald Trump has never hesitated to make his opinion known on the nuclear deal negotiated by President Barack Obama with Iran.
President Donald Trump appears to have struck a nerve with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who called America’s commander-in-chief a “brute” and said on Wednesday he does not want to “waste time on answering the rants and whoppers” of the leader of the free world.
Following President Trump’s refusal to certify the Iran nuclear deal, a senior Iranian leader claimed that “U.S. behavior” triggers the extreme, belligerent behavior of North Korea, as America is “not trustworthy.”
The Kurdish outlet Rudaw has published a video allegedly showing a member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Shiite Iran-backed militias, hanging a photo of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in the Kirkuk, Iraq, governorate’s building.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has authorized the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under terrorism Executive Order 13224; a move the leader of the free world said was “long overdue.”
TEL AVIV – Senior Iranian officials claimed Monday’s independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan was a “plot” orchestrated by Israel and the United States.
