Middle East

The death of a young Iranian woman in police custody continues to reverberate

7:18am October 04, 2022

by Kenyon

The woman who died in police custody setting off protests across Iran was Kurdish, and her case highlights the second-class status of nearly 10% of the country's people.

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A protestor cuts her hair during a demonstration against the Iranian government and in support of Iranian women in Istanbul on Sunday.

Around the world, protesters take to the streets in solidarity with Iranian women

4:01pm October 03, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

The gatherings are an echo of the protests that have erupted in Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country's so-called morality police.

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The history of Iran's so-called morality police

5:26pm September 30, 2022

Iran's Guidance Patrol is under fire after protests across the country. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with an Iranian scholar Roxane Farmanfarmaian about the history of the controversial institution.

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Iran's regime has one response for popular uprisings: Crackdown

4:10pm September 29, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about what's sustaining protesters in Iran and why he thinks the regime is incapable of reform.

A new generation is posing a challenge in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

6:30am September 29, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

Young Palestinian men — in their teens and twenties — are taking up guns and organizing into small militias with names like the Lion's Den.

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How the Kurdish people's situation factors into protests over woman's death in Iran

5:08pm September 27, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Meghan Bodette, the director of research at the Kurdish Peace Institute, about the protests in the Kurdish region in Iran following the death of a young woman last week.

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A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran on Sept. 21 shows Iranian demonstrators in Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini, days after she died in police custody.

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The protests won't lead to regime change, Iran's foreign minister tells NPR

8:08am September 27, 2022

As protests intensify in Iran over the arrest and death in custody of a 22-year-old woman, the country's top diplomat promises an investigation into what happened but downplays the demonstrations.

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Politics & Government

News brief: Oath Keepers' trial, protests inside Russia, Iran's foreign minister

6:09am September 27, 2022

Some Oath Keepers go on trial for seditious conspiracy. Moscow confronts protests over its call-up of military reservists. Iran's foreign minister responds to the suppression of peaceful protests.

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Pro-government demonstrators attend a rally condemning recent anti-government protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police in Tehran earlier this month.

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Protests in Iran reach 10th night as Iranians summon U.K. ambassador over coverage

6:08am September 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

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 outlets.

Boxes of dates are auctioned off by the tens of kilos at the Buraydah Date Festival in Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, on Aug. 3, 2022.

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Get a peek inside this Saudi Arabian date festival

6:00am September 25, 2022

Saudi Arabia is one of the world's top producers and exporters of dates, and dozens of varieties are sold every year at the Buraydah Date Festival.

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