A court in France reversed the French government’s decision to ban a prominent Iranian opposition group’s rally in support of the current uprising in Iran, in what is being hailed as a “major blow” to Tehran’s repressive Islamic regime and a major victory for its opponents.
Urging the Biden administration to drop negotiations with the “brutal regime” of Iran, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) is leading a bipartisan resolution in support of Iranian demonstrators.
Iranian officials as of Monday have provided no evidence nor confirmed remarks by top prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri this weekend claiming that the country’s Islamist “morality police” had been “abolished.”
Over half-a-dozen Iranian advocacy groups issued a letter calling out European governments for “complacency” toward the brutal Islamic regime, while demanding more sanctions and cutting diplomatic ties with the Islamic republic as ongoing protests continue to rock cities across Iran.
Images of unveiled Iranian women protesting against the Islamic regime of Iran following the death of young woman in police custody risk producing “misogynistic assumptions that the veil is a universal marker for oppression,” warned a recent Washington Post essay, which also argued such depictions risk “legitimizing foreign intervention, from increased sanctions to warfare.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday it summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest what it described as a hostile atmosphere created by London-based Farsi language media outlet
An exiled Iranian opposition group blasted the U.N.’s decision to welcome Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran” — to its General Assembly on Wednesday, noting Raisi’s bloody past.
Massive protests swept Iran over the weekend after the so-called “morality police” killed a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini for violating strict requirements for women to keep their heads covered in public.
A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people.
Austrian police arrested four members of a Chechen “morality gang” in Vienna for threatening to behead another man’s children if he did not give them money.
A 21-year-old German-Algerian woman who was captured in the Middle East after joining Islamic State has been charged in a German court for being a member of the group’s morality police and taking children as slaves.
A German female Islamic State member is facing war crimes charges after she allowed a five-year-old slave she kept with her husband in Syria to die of thirst while chained outside under the blazing sun.
Iranian police raided two large parties in Tehran and arrested 230 people for drinking and dancing on Thursday night.
Some women in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-controlled Mosul have said they are “much more afraid” of the jihadist group’s all-female “morality police,” or Khansaa Brigade, than the battle-hardened male terrorists, reports NBC News.
Up to 150 people have been detained in Iran after the morality police raided what has been described as a mixed-gender party near Tehran.
Iranian militia units destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes in a ceremony on Sunday to protect the “morality” of the populace.
Two men were reportedly arrested by law enforcement in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for organizing a dog beauty contest.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has restricted Mosul residents’ access to news about the outside world in an effort to insulate civilians and its own fighters from information about the U.S.-backed Iraqi army’s offensive to liberate the city, reports Reuters.
Saudi Arabia is curbing the powers of its feared religious police, prohibiting officers from pursuing suspects or making arrests, various news outlets report.
Iranian authorities reportedly blocked a new mapping app this week that warns users about where the Iranian regime’s morality police are located, just 24 hours after its launch.
A Saudi Arabian court in Al-Qatif sentenced a 32-year-old woman to 70 lashes and a fine of 20,000 Saudi Riyals ($5,333.33) after she insulted her husband on the WhatsApp mobile app.
Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the national morality police, arrested a group of young men for dancing and playing loud music at a birthday party in Buraydah.
