Iranian state media on Wednesday aired pro-government demonstrations in cities across the country after a week of protests and unrest over the nation’s poor economy — a move apparently seeking to calm nerves amid clashes that have killed 21 people. - Associated Press
Iran’s costly efforts to project power beyond its borders in the wider Middle East are exacting a political price at home, with arrests and deaths multiplying as anti government demonstrations persisted into a sixth day Tuesday. - The Wall Street Journal
Nearly a decade ago, a then-fledgling internet tool played a starring role in a protest movement that swept Iran, with organizers and witnesses communicating with each other, and the rest of the world, via Twitter. Today, a loose-knit group of Iranian protesters has added a new tool: Telegram, a smartphone messaging app that people have used to share information about demonstrations and videos of gatherings. - The Wall Street Journal
The Trump administration accused the Iranian government Tuesday of blocking or suppressing communications used by anti-government protesters and began laying groundwork for new international sanctions targeting alleged human rights abuses. - The Washington Post
As Iranians take to the streets in the biggest demonstrations in nearly a decade, residents of the increasingly tense capital say they sympathize with the protesters’ economic grievances and anger at official corruption. The Associated Press spoke to Iranians in Tehran on Tuesday, the sixth day of protests that have seen at least 21 people killed and hundreds arrested across the country. - Associated Press
Antigovernment protests roiled Iran on Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 21 and the nation’s supreme leader blamed foreign enemies for the unrest. But the protests that have spread to dozens of Iranian cities in the past six days were set off by miscalculations in a long-simmering power struggle between hard-liners and reformers. - New York Times
President Trump has given full-throated support to the antigovernment protesters in Iran. But the rising tide of unrest there complicates an already vexing decision for him: whether he should rip up the nuclear deal struck by President Barack Obama. - New York Times
Nearly nine years ago, the upheaval in Iran was stunning. Massive crowds marched through the streets of Iran’s capital and other cities demanding change in the first major unrest to shake the rule of hard-line Muslim clerics over the country since they came to power in 1979. Now Iran’s Islamic Republic is seeing a new, equally startling wave of unrest. - Associated Press
Editorial: Anti-government protests continue across Iran after six days, and the ruling mullahs and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are threatening a crackdown that could get ugly. The world should support this fight for freedom, which is exposing the illusions about Iran that dominated the Obama Administration. - The Wall Street Journal
Opinion: Think of the Iranian uprising as a bottom-up revolt by people who feel they’ve been ignored by a corrupt elite. The issues and the faces in the street are very different from those of the populist movements that swept the United States and Europe in 2016, but you sense a resonance: “Make Iran Great Again” and “Iran First.” - The Washington Post
For the past three years, Iraq has been held together by one common goal: the defeat of the Islamic State. In December, Haider al-Abadi declared victory over ISIS. But with Iranian militias still to contend with and tensions with the Kurds high, challenges to peace remain. - The Atlanti