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Fifty Unidentified Female Protesters Found in Tehran Morgue – Islamic Regime’s Use of Gendered State Violence

Fifty Unidentified Female Protesters Found in Tehran Morgue – Islamic Regime’s Use of Gendered State Violence

The recent discovery of approximately fifty unidentified female bodies at Tehran’s Kahrizak forensic complex has intensified fears about the scale and gendered nature of state violence in Iran amid country-wide protests against a regime with a history of targeting women dissidents using sexual violence.  On February 7, the Sociology Student Association at Tarbiat Modares University […]

about 6 hours agoMahtab Mahboub

Opinion

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Fifty Unidentified Female Protesters Found in Tehran Morgue – Islamic Regime’s Use of Gendered State Violence
Fifty Unidentified Female Protesters Found in Tehran Morgue – Islamic Regime’s Use of Gendered State Violence
about 6 hours agoMahtab Mahboub
From White Scarf to Hair Braiding: Kurdish Resistance Through Civil Disobedience and Symbolism
From White Scarf to Hair Braiding: Kurdish Resistance Through Civil Disobedience and Symbolism
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From White Scarf to Hair Braiding: Kurdish Resistance Through Civil Disobedience and Symbolism
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From White Scarf to Hair Braiding: Kurdish Resistance Through Civil Disobedience and Symbolism

Civil disobedience, one of many tools in the toolkit of resistance, does not receive the pomp and attention often given to armed resistance or loud demonstrations. But in the case of Kurdish resistance and the hair-braiding campaign, which was prompted by gendered violence against Kurdish women, it has proven to be significant. Two understandings of […]

about 7 hours agoDr. Abdulmelik Alkan
Siahkal and the Emergence of Armed Struggle Against the Shah: Selective Memory and Today’s Uprising in Iran
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Siahkal and the Emergence of Armed Struggle Against the Shah: Selective Memory and Today’s Uprising in Iran

Fifty years after Siahkal, the first armed challenge to the Shah still haunts Iran’s political imagination, as selective memory collides with the realities of today’s uprising.

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Siahkal and the Emergence of Armed Struggle Against the Shah: Selective Memory and Today’s Uprising in Iran

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PJAK Co-Chair on Iran Protests, Israel Ties, Pahlavi, and Regime Change

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