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• Iran Protests Quelled Since Deadly Crackdown, Residents Say - “There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
• She set a photo afire, lit a cigarette — and became a symbol of resistance for Iran protesters - With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. It ignites, illuminating the visage of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest cler
• Why Israel Is Wary of Intervening in Iran - Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.
• Senior Hamas figure reported killed in air strike in Gaza - CAIRO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Two Israeli airstrikes killed five people in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, and Palestinian media reported that one of those
• Exclusive-Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say - Jan 14 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by roughly a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, two
• Drone strike kills 3 in Gaza as Hamas prepares to transfer governance to new committee - An Israeli drone strike on Monday killed three Palestinians who had crossed the ceasefire line near central Gaza’s Morag corridor, hospital officials said. Israel’s military did not immediately respond to questions about the strike, which
• Iran says communications open with US, Trump weighs response to crackdown on protests - By Jana Choukeir, Nayera Abdallah and Tala Ramadan DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it is keeping communications open with the U.S. as President Donald Trump weighed responses to a
• Hamas says it will dissolve its Gaza government when new Palestinian body takes over - Hamas said Sunday it will dissolve its existing government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over the territory, as mandated under the U.S.-brokered peace plan. Hamas and the rival Palestinian Authority, th
• Iran’s President Warns Protesters Not to Destabilize the Country - Masoud Pezeshkian expressed sympathy for protesters’ economic pain, but said the state must respond to “rioters.”
• Iran’s President Warns Protesters Not to Destabilize the Country - Masoud Pezeshkian expressed sympathy for protesters’ economic pain, but said the state must respond to “rioters.” The death toll from the protests rose to about 200, rights groups said.