October 21, 2022; the Washington Post
For five weeks, Iranian protesters have braved a brutal crackdown to challenge the country’s authoritarian clerical rulers, drawing the world’s attention — and the efforts of commentators in the West to explain what the demonstrators want.
The anti-government protests began in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while in the custody of so-called morality police after being detained for an alleged violation of headscarf rules. But the protests have come to encompass a wide range of grievances, which are reflected in the protesters’ rallying cries.
October 18, 2022; Newsweek
Protests across Iran, which have entered their second month, pose a real threat to the country's ruling regime, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights to the Islamic Republic of Iran, recently told Newsweek.
"The level of repression and authoritarianism and brutality that is taking place in Iran cannot go on—something will have to give," Javaid Rehman, whose duties include monitoring and investigating human rights violations in Iran and reporting to the U.N. General Assembly on the human rights situation there, said. "Otherwise, there is a real risk that the people will rise and it will be beyond the control of the Iranian authorities."
September 21, 2022; OIAC
New York, September 23, 2022 – Capping a weeklong series of exhibitions and daily picket lines, some 3,000 Iranian Americans from across 40 U.S. states held a major rally at New York’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to denounce Raisi and stand in solidarity with the ongoing nationwide protests in Iran calling for regime change.
According to the latest reports by the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), dozens have been killed by the Revolutionary Guards in protests in 100 cities and 30 provinces in Iran.
September 27, 2022; France24
More than 75 people have died in Iran's crackdown on 11 nights of unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a rights group said, as Western nations pile pressure on the Islamic republic to end the violence.
The semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday that "around 60" people have been killed, up from the official death toll of 41 authorities reported on Saturday.
DALLAS, TEXAS, July 2, 2022 - Iranian-American Community of North Texas (IACNT) strongly condemns the presentation of a bill by the Belgian government, paving the way for releasing Assadollah Assadi, a convicted diplomat terrorist of the Iranian regime serving his 20-year sentence in Belgium. This bill is being hastily introduced in Belgium Parliament next week and may be ratified as law.
Many of IACNT members from North Texas attended ‘‘Free Iran 2018–the Alternative’’ summit in Paris which was the target of a foiled bomb plot by the Iranian regime and its Vienna-based diplomat Assadi. He and his three accomplices were later convicted by the Belgian court.
More than 250 bipartisan members of the US Congress showed their support for the Iranian people in H. Res. 118 and resolved that the House of Representatives: