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Iran enforced a near-total internet and phone shutdown as protests spread across cities and small towns over economic distress and political repression. Demonstrators responded to calls by the exiled ...

For more than a week, Shirin has waited for news of her sister in Tehran. “I knew that she’s going to protest,” says the Iranian-Australian engineer, whose name has been changed to protect her family ...

Iran is trending. Trump says it’s about democracy, saving protestors and freedom. With hundreds dead and thousands detained under a brutal government crackdown, the world watches a volatile moment ...