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A conservative legislator in Iran’s parliament revealed on Sunday that police have arrested 129 people so far during protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and outside the country’s Parliament over the past week. Protests continued into Monday as the nation’s water supplies dried up.

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.

Iranian Member of Parliament Behrouz Bonyadi criticized Tehran’s allies Russia and Syria in unusually harsh terms during a speech on Wednesday, essentially agreeing with the Iranian protest movement that the nation has spent too many resources in propping up Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, apparently triggered by the pending reimposition of American sanctions on Iran next month and ongoing protests over the nation’s depleted economy, went on a tirade against the United States on Wednesday where he said the regime would “bring America to its knees” and suggested that half of America’s population is “ashamed of their government.”

Protests against Iran’s regime continued for a second day on Tuesday in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar as Iranians railed against the government for its foreign and economic policies, while the Islamic Republic’s government said the uprisings were merely a fabrication as part of “foreign media propaganda.”

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

Contents: Iranian police clash with marginalized Qashqai tribe in southern Iran; Iranian police kill two as new protests erupt in Iran

A series of new protests could occur throughout Iran if millions of citizens feel empowered by President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday, effectively withdrawing the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.

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.

With Bibi’s Iran deal revelations, Israel has started running down the clock not to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, but to the overthrow of the regime by the people of Iran.

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 – Republican and Democratic congressmen and women applauded Iranian women for their bravery during a Nowruz (Persian New Year) reception on Capitol Hill Wednesday, just one day before International Women’s Day.

A woman arrested in December for removing her hijab in public and waving it to protest the compulsory law on wearing it since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 was sentenced on Thursday to up to two years in prison for “encouraging corruption.”

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An Iranian-Canadian university professor detained in Tehran has died in custody, activists and a family member said Sunday, marking the latest suspicious death of a detainee in Iran after a crackdown on dissent following nationwide protests.

Iranian media reported on Friday that police in Tehran have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without wearing a hijab, the Muslim headscarf that is mandatory for women under Iranian law.

A group of Iranian members of parliament claimed “unfavorable weather conditions” forced them to postpone a planned January 28 visit to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison where hundreds of protesters who participated in wide-ranging and ongoing uprisings throughout the country are being held.

Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi alleged this week that at least one of the protesters who died in an Iranian prison after being detained was forced to take pills that made him sick.

WASHINGTON, DC – Iranian dissidents, and individuals who were brave enough to speak with the media from within the Islamic Republic of Iran, are calling for an end to the tyrannical regime that they argue has left their homeland far worse off than it was before Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in 1979.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani announced on Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s central bank has stopped issuing permits and licenses for new private banks or commercial lenders.

A lawyer in Iran expressed concern over the fate of the “Girl of Enghelab Street,” a woman arrested for removing her white headscarf and waving it in the air in a sign of protest to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s compulsory hijab law

Approximately ten members of Iran’s parliament will reportedly be granted access to visit anti-regime prisoners who were arrested during the mass uprising that has rocked the Islamic republic since December 28.

Reports surfacing this week indicate that the Iranian regime has deployed online bots to push back against the people who want it dismantled and have relied on Internet access to organize protests.

Despite protests calling for greater economic restraint in funding projects to promote Shiite Islam around the world, Islamic leaders during a Friday prayer called for more money to go towards Shiite seminaries in Iran.

Radio Farda reported on Tuesday that the families of four Iranian students imprisoned during the government crackdown on a popular uprising are “deeply worried about their loved ones,” as the government is holding them incommunicado and providing no information about their status.

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.

Two activists arrested and charged for participating in the widespread protests calling for the demise of Iran’s Islamic regime were reportedly tortured to death in prison in Iranian Kurdistan.

According to the Iranian judiciary, around 456 people remain in jail after the crackdown against the recent popular uprising, following the release of 440 “arrested rioters” over the past few days. The judiciary counted 25 deaths during the uprising, blaming them entirely on demonstrators while laughably claiming that government security forces fired no shots because they were “ordered not to use their weapons.”

Retired Navy SEAL Erik Prince criticized the brutality of Iran’s response to recent demonstrations and warned about Iran’s growing regional influence on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight with SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis recently spoke out in favor of the Iran protests, stating that the United States does not have any issues with the Iranian people, only with the regime.

The Iran nuclear deal will apparently survive its latest 90-day review, despite President Trump’s frequent criticisms of the arrangement and requests for alternatives from his advisers, and the Trump administration’s strong criticism of the Iranian government’s crackdown on the recent popular uprising.

In a piece titled, “Instagram Shuts Down Page of Iran’s Hero General Soleimani Again!” Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency protested the social media platform on Wednesday, which recently shut down IRGC-Quds Forces Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s page for a third time.

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Steve King (R-IA) tells Breitbart News that history – and, in particular, the dismantling of German’s Berlin Wall which signified the end of Communism in that country – should serve as a guide for the Iranian people protesting to take back their country.

Iran’s campaign to direct anger at its repressive Islamist regime towards the United States continued Thursday with a senior military official declaring that the United States’ “history of barbarism” nullified American criticisms of reported arrests and torture of dissidents in the country.

Iranian protesters who have been released from prison, and the families of those still held without charges, say that some of the detainees have been tortured and killed.

A recent article in the Scientific American titled “Climate Change May Have Helped Spark Iran’s Protests” suggests climate – not Iran’s active export of terrorism and neglect of its civilian population – is responsible for the second consecutive week of protests in the Islamic Republic.

Two Republicans who voted against the House resolution in support of Iranian protesters said America’s best interests led to their decision.