@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-01-15 00:57:51
Trump declares victory as Iranian protesters are headed to the gallows
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260115-trump-says-iran-executions-stopping-as-tehran-signals-fast-trials-and-hangings
@Jyoti@mas.to2026-01-16 18:44:20
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-10 14:57:28
Russian cargo flights to Tehran amid protests spur claims Iran is moving gold to Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/russian-cargo-flights-to-tehran.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-14 01:16:45
An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital,
as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.
Three doctors, in messages forwarded to the Guardian on Monday, described overwhelmed hospitals and emergency wings overflowing with protesters who had been shot.
Medical staff said the gunshot wounds were mostly concentrated …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-12 02:15:35
Trump says he's looking at "very strong options" for supporting Iran protests (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/trump-iran-protests-options-tehran-crackdown-death-toll
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p80#a260111p80
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-14 20:47:52
They just updated the UK Iran travel advice to say the Tehran embassy staff have been withdrawn.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iran
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-12 15:15:55
"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…
@lilmikesf@c.im2026-01-10 17:58:57
12th straight day of protests in #TehranIran as demonstrators against #SupremeLeader Shia regime insist they have #NothingToLose
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 02:56:40
Iran extends airspace closure
Iran further extended an order closing its airspace to commercial aircraft without explanation early on Thursday.
A notice to pilots said the closure was estimated to last until 7.30am local time, the AP is reporting.
A previous order had closed the airspace for just over two hours.
The Iranian government offered no explanation of the decision to shut its airspace amid the tensions with Washington over Tehran’s protest crackdown.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-12 16:28:45
Iran’s foreign minister has claimed the situation in the country has
“come under total control”
as authorities carry out a brutal crackdown against the nationwide protest movement.
Abbas Araghchi made the comments to foreign diplomats in Tehran, without supplying evidence.
The few messages and videos to have emerged from Iran overnight showed that protests were continuing,
but an ongoing internet blackout made it difficult to judge whether the authorities’ use o…