Biden sounds just like the authoritarian leaders of Iran justifying their violent crackdowns.

Iran charges journalists after BBC report on teen protester's death bbc.in/3WnNxda

The World Needs a Garage for Democracy - our #peoplepoweracademy may be the answer: journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi… via Journal of Democracy CANVAS Leopoldo López Sophia McClennen Félix Maradiaga Steve Parks UVA UVADemocracy Evan Mawarire Will Dobson peter pomerantsev Rana Rahimpour

'Saudi Arabia has stepped up the arrest of citizens for social-media posts related to the Gaza war... a media figure who said Israel should never be forgiven has been arrested, as has an individual calling for a boycott of American fast food restaurants.' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Security forces cracking down on students?! This is beginning to look like #Iran . #Columbia_University

'We can only persevere in struggle for democracy if we are convinced in the deepest part of our being, in what we do', says
Félix Maradiaga
in an interview with
UVA global at #peoplepoweracademy
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The investigative piece by the BBC about the 2022 murder of 17 year old protester Nika in Iran has hit a nerve with papers close to the supreme leader and revolutionary guards.

Headline after headline on their front pages calling BBC names and trying to discredit the report.…

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Beaten, abused, dumped on the street - secret document tells how Iran teen protester died at hands of security forces

bbc.in/3QoTyCE

اسناد «فوق محرمانه» سپاه پاسداران که بی‌بی‌سی به دست آورده و توانسته اصالت آن را تایید کند حاکی از آن است که نیکا شاکرمی، نوجوان معترض به کشته‌شدن مهسا (ژینا) امینی در سال ۱۴۰۱، پس از دستگیری به دست سه مامور مرد، مورد تعرض جنسی قرار گرفته و به قتل رسیده است.

این اسناد شامل اسامی…

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Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester #iran #nikashakarami bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

Arab states do not want to join a bloc explicitly working against Iran & its global supporters, such as Russia. They prefer to balance multiple regional & global relationships, not to burn bridges, write Dalia Dassa Kaye & Sanam Vakil صنم وكىل via Foreign Affairs.

foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/an…

A Tory MP and former health minister defects to Labour, saying the Conservatives have become a “nationalist party of the right” that has abandoned ­compassion and no longer prioritises the NHS.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

'At first sanctions may work, but countries like Iran, China and Russia found a way to cooperate how to circumvent sanctions.' Rana Rahimpour

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A mother single handedly standing up to regime forces in Iran who are trying to kidnap her daughter for not wearing the forced Hijab. “You won’t take my daughter any where.”

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