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Publication date: 17 October 2022

The crackdown is part of attempts to suppress the five-week-old nationwide protests following the death of a student, Mahsa Amini. These anti-government protests have outlasted…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273401

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 25 May 2022

Workers’ protests in Iran have been growing due to the impact of sanctions, economic mismanagement, low and unpaid wages, inflation, increasing poverty levels and corruption. The…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270452

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Publication date: 10 October 2019

This comes after Iraq on October 1-6 witnessed its most violent popular protests since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003. The protests have subsided for now amid a…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB246989

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Publication date: 27 August 2015

Uncollected waste has been piling up in the capital since the country's largest landfill closed on July 17. Prime Minister Tammam Salam has threatened to resign over the crisis…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB202975

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Publication date: 29 December 2021

In November, farmers gathered in Isfahan to complain about water scarcity. Teachers, miners, pensioners and municipal workers have also protested in recent months against a…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB266315

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Publication date: 13 December 2022

The state used Iran’s matches to brand protesters at home and in Qatar as enemies of the Iranian people. Those in Qatar and Iran who support the protests were divided over whether…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274647

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Publication date: 13 July 2023

Exiled Kurdish parties are demanding greater autonomy for Kurds in Iran. However, Tehran accuses them of wanting separatism and blames them for fomenting the Mahsa Amini protests…

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Publication date: 15 January 2020

The authorities’ belated admission of the error, on January 11, sparked new waves of student-led protests across several cities, with outspoken slogans targeting the supreme…

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Publication date: 26 January 2017

Bahrain’s January 15 execution of three men convicted of killing an Emirati police officer prompted a resurgence of protests in some of the country’s marginalised Shia villages…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB217547

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Publication date: 5 January 2018

Beginning in the conservative city of Mashhad, the mostly small-scale and leaderless demonstrations spread across many provincial towns over several days, sometimes turning…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227856

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