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The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to launch an independent investigation into Iran's deadly repression of protests, that has killed around 400 civilians.

The former chief of Iranian state Radio and TV has condemned the killing of protesters by the regime saying those who order deadly violence are “murderers”.

China tried but failed to stop a motion on Iran before the UN Human Rights Council Thursday that would have stripped out the main paragraph referring to a new investigative probe into Iran's suppression of mass protests.

In response to calls for strikes, merchants and storekeepers in dozens of Iranian cities closed their shops and workers stopped work at some factories.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has called on the UN Security Council to try to close the headquarters of the Iraqi-based Kurdish groups and disarm them.

The UN Human Rights Council met Thursday to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially with respect to women and children.

Sources in Tehran say Iran's ruling hardliners faced with losing it all are beseeching once popular reformists they purged from power to help save the regime.

An lawmaker in Tehran says the Judiciary has indicted him for his condemnation of killing of Kurdish people in western Iran by security forces.

The chief commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened to take revenge for the death of one of its senior officers who was killed in Syria Monday.

Australia says an Iranian-Australian dual national has been arrested in Iran amid the ongoing antigovernment protests.

The ongoing nationwide uprising in Iran appears to have led to an escalation in confrontations among various ruling conservative and hardliner groups.

The Israeli Mossad alerted UK authorities about an impending Iranian plot to carry out terrorist attacks against Iran International’s journalists based in London.

The State Department told Iran International Wednesday that the US is “greatly concerned” over the Islamic Republic’s “escalating violence” against protesters.

The United States’ top diplomat for Iran has slammed the Islamic Republic for reports about sexual assaults on protest detainees, saying it is “unspeakable”.

The United States has imposed sanctions on three more Iranian security officials for their violations of human rights.

A human rights network says over a dozen Kurdish citizens have been killed during the suppression of protests by the Iranian regime during November 19-21.

The United Kingdom defense ministry said Wednesday that Russia had used hundreds of Iranian-made drones in Ukraine but none since around November 17.

A hardliner Iranian lawmaker has confirmed that the Revolutionary Guard’s Ground Forces have been deployed to Kurdish areas to crack down on protesters.

In the tenth week of antigovernment protests in Iran, workers and employees of different sectors continue their strikes and called Thursday for more nationwide action.

Israeli media say the Mossad informed Britain’s spy agency about threats against Iranian citizens in Britain, especially journalists.

In a leaked audio file, a US-based veteran IRGC commander is heard calling for monitoring to better understand the current wave of opposition against the Islamic Republic.