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“Iranian authorities must quash #ToomajSalehi’s conviction and death sentence and release him immediately,” demands Amnesty International.

Authorities have been unable to track the helicopter carrying Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, and other officials after its crash hours ago due to severe weather. State-controlled media is cautiously reporting on the incident, carefully choreographing the flow of information as

Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, is most likely dead, along with other officials and crew. State-owned media live reports of the helicopter's situation confirm that no one expected to survive the incident.

"Butcher of Tehran" is gone. Ebrahim Raisi, one of the most notorious Iranian officials, will be remembered for repression, execution, & death. He was the embodiment of the regime's cruelty, incompetence, and corruption. The Iranian people's reaction to his death speaks volumes.

History has a sense of irony: after years of talk about Raisi using the presidency as a stepping-stone in the race to succeed Khamenei, the presidency cost him his life, and Khamenei has to contend with the drama of an unwanted presidential succession. economist.com/middle-east-an…

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi talking to us at RadioFarda‌|‌راديو فردا says Ebrahim Raisi didn't not deserve such "an easy death" due to his role in serious human rights abuses in the Islamic republic, adding that he should have faced trial.

Demanding a Public Trial for Narges Mohammadi, a Trial Where Witnesses Can Narrate and People Can Judge Sign petition : narges.foundation/public-trial/ #FreeNarges #WomanLifeFreedom #NargesMohammadi

Hamid Nouri was convicted of war crimes in 🇸🇪 over the mass killing of prisoners in 1988 in Iran. The Swedish govt today swapped him with 2 prisoners in Iran. Indefensible & disgusting. The quest for justice continues, as hostage-taking doesn't stop it. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/…

My fist Op-Ed since I was released… I endured Evin, Iran’s most notorious jail. I can’t understand how Sweden can leave its citizen to die there | Siamak Namazi theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Masoud Pezeshkian: Iran's Next President Masoud Pezeshkian has been elected as Iran's next president in an election marked by low voter turnout and widespread disillusionment. Below are key insights into the recent presidential elections and what they reveal about Pezeshkian's

“My book ‘The Return’ reacquainted me with my country and my people after 33 years of exile. But it also reacquainted me with myself.” Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar talks to Omid Memarian about Libya, friendship and “the potential of our humanity.” dawnmena.org/pulitzer-prize…

"What's happening in Palestine is of a completely different order. It's the tragedy of our moment. The scale is unfathomable." Pulitizer Prize winner Hisham Matar's interview with Omid Memarian on Palestine, exile and the "potential of our humanity." dawnmena.org/pulitzer-prize…

“Look at the language, the passive voice, the inability to name a perpetrator, the inability to say: Israel is killing people,” Mehdi Hasan tells Democracy in Exile of failed media coverage of Gaza. “Journalism is about the what, the when, the why, the who.” dawnmena.org/this-is-the-ir…

"This is the Iraq War on steroids." "Journalism is about the what, the when, the why, the who. We're just not doing that when it comes to Israel-Palestine."Mehdi Hasan told me in an interview with Democracy in Exile. dawnmena.org/this-is-the-ir…

"The life of a homeland owes me to think only of life and not of the homeland." R.I.P. #KianooshSanjari dw.com/en/kianoosh-sa…

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“We are in this moment where all the liberal niceties of so-called woke capitalism are gone. They're dropping the show. It's over.” Read my interview with Naomi Klein on Gaza, Trump and the end of liberal order. Thanks Frederick Deknatel freddydeknatel.bsky.social DAWN MENA. dawnmena.org/the-exceptions…

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"Leaders lead by doing something that is necessary, by doing things ahead of time... Leaders build. Leaders shape history. They don't wait for history to happen to them. They do the work ahead of time." From my interview with former Rep. Cori Bush dawnmena.org/all-i-lost-was…

“The sun was still shining when the 78th Cannes Film Festival came to an emotional, exhilarating close with the Palme d’Or going to “Un Simple Accident,” from the Iranian writer-director Jafar Panahi.”nytimes.com/2025/05/24/mov…