The scale of nationwide protests in Iran and the bloody crackdown that has followed is slowly coming into focus, even though authorities have cut off the country from the internet.

The Basij were deployed as cannon fodder in human-wave attacks during the Iran-Iraq War. Since then, they have been used as inexpensive volunteer enforcers and agents of repression. They are drawn from “a slender minority” of the country that still believes — young men and boys who are “armed, ideologically brainwashed and easily mobilized.”

Iranian demonstrators set mosques ablaze during heated protests against the country’s Islamic government, according to local video and reports this

The bloody crackdown offers hints about growing tensions inside the country’s ruling system as the cleric’s rule comes under strain.

Most people refer to the 1979 hijacking of Iran by extremist ayatollahs as the Islamic Revolution. I like to refer to it as the Demonic Revolution. I am praying that Iran’s demons will be exorcised shortly and allow Iran to have a true spiritual revolution.

Outrage is spreading after shocking CCTV footage from an Iranian mosque shows an alleged arson attack during ongoing protests, with children reportedly inside the building. Iranian authorities accuse protesters of endangering minors and desecrating a sacred place,

For a third night in a row, nationwide antigovernment protests rocked Iran, according to witnesses and videos verified by The New York Times, posted on BBC Persian and social media, even as the government intensified its crackdown and the military said it would take to the streets in response to the unrest.

WASHINGTON — President Trump proclaimed Friday that the US is “locked and loaded and ready” to help protesters in Iran who have risen up against that country’s hardline Islamic regime in widespread demonstrations. “If Iran shots [sic] and ...

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Video shared on social media on January 9th showed a mosque burning in Tehran during Iran’s most widespread protests in years. The date when the video was recorded could not be independently verified.