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Iran summoned China’s envoy in Tehran to express unhappiness over a joint statement issued at a meeting between President Xi Jinping and regional Arab states.

Students at different universities across Iran held sit-ins on Saturday amid increasing pressure on activists on campuses after almost three months of unrest.

Amnesty International this week criticized Iran for stopping families questioning the circumstances of under-18s’ deaths in current unrest.

The Iranian regime keeps up pressure on detained protesters with physical, sexual, and mental torture in prison, reports from family members and others say.

The Iranian currency rial dropped to a new historic low Saturday amid popular protests, strikes and a government determination to use force against all opposition.

Iranians abroad have once again held protest rallies to declare opposition to the Islamic Republic and express support for their compatriots’ uprising.

A day after Nato’s chief said war in Ukraine could ‘spin out of control,’ US spokesman John Kirby said Russia was offering Iran “unprecedented” military support

Many Iranians enraged by the execution of 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari held protests Friday evening in some cities and more are planned for Saturday.

Iran’s exiled queen Farah Pahlavi has expressed sorrow over the execution of Iranian protester Mohsen Shekari asking the people to preserve their unity.

The Australian government has imposed sanctions on several Iranian government entities for human rights violations and abuses.

The European Union has urged the Islamic Republic to stop the repression and execution of protestors, as well as support for Russia.

Media in Iran are discussing how the current wave of protests are different from all previous antigovernment outbursts and why there is no end in sight.

Iran’s top Sunni religious leader slammed executions of protesters as violations of Sharia law and warned the authorities that this will not stop the antigovernment movement.

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities over alleged human rights abuse or corruption across nine countries, including Russia, China and Iran.

The United States announced new military aid for Ukraine Friday and vowed to disrupt Russian Iranian ties, including the possible supply of missiles by Tehran.

China’s foreign ministry this week called President Xi Jinping’s Riyadh visit the “largest-scale” diplomacy between the People’s Republic and the Arab world.

The US mission in the United Nations says the execution of Mohsen Shekari represents a grim escalation of the tactics the Islamic Republic is utilizing in its ongoing brutal crackdown on protesters.

The United Kingdom ambassador to the United Nations said Friday that Russia was trying to obtain more weapons from Iran, including hundreds of ballistic missiles.

As in many other previous cases, Iranian authorities Friday allowed only a handful of family members to attend Mohsen Shekari’s heavily guarded burial to prevent a possible protest.

A prominent Sunni cleric and prayer leader of a mosque in the city of Khash in Sistan and Baluchestan province has been killed.

Britain on Friday summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in London to protest the hanging of Mohsen Shekari, the first such execution over ongoing antigovernment unrest.