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On Friday, February 14, following the brutal murder of Amir Mohammad Khaleqi, a student at the University of Tehran, and the subsequent wave of student protests, the regime’s repressive forces hastily attempted to cover up and distort the facts surrounding this crime and its prior circumstances. Their goal was to silence the students and, in their view, contain their uprising. However, students countered this suppressive ploy with the chant: “Students will die but will never accept disgrace.” International news agencies reported that Iranian regime officials are trying to prevent a repeat of the nationwide protests that erupted in 2022 following the death of Mahsa Amini, which shook the country. Universities have traditionally been centers of protest in Iran—students played a key role in the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah, participated in the wave of anti-government demonstrations in 1999, and more recently, in the protest movement sparked by Amini’s death. https://tinyurl.com/5na7z586

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Minoo Rouzedar, a civil activist and mother of three, remains in a state of legal limbo in the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran-Iran. Despite being detained for 25 days, she was recently charged in Evin’s Prosecutor’s Office with accusations including “propaganda against the state” and “insulting Khamenei.” Minoo Rouzedar was arrested on January 20, by security forces in Tehran and was initially held in the detention center of the IRGC Intelligence, known as Ward 1-A. https://tinyurl.com/cxau3brx

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According to the newly issued verdict, which has been officially communicated to Miss Sharifeh Mohammadi's legal representatives, she has been sentenced to death on charges of “Baghy-e” (armed insurgency) through alleged membership in an opposition group. This comes even though her initial death sentence—issued in July 2023—had been overturned by Branch 39 of the Iranian regime's Supreme Court in October, leading to the case’s referral to a parallel court for reconsideration. Security forces arrested Mohammadi at her home on December 5, 2023. She was later returned to Lakan Prison in Rasht after a brief transfer to Sanandaj Prison. A source close to her family has asserted that Sharifeh Mohammadi was only a member of a labor rights organization until 2013 and had no connection to the Komala Party, the group she is accused of affiliating with. https://tinyurl.com/mr3vufdc

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On February 14, As the Munich Security Conference (MSC2025) took place, hundreds of Iranian Resistance supporters staged a major demonstration near the conference venue, despite temperatures dropping to 12 degrees below zero. The protesters sent a strong message to European governments and international policymakers, urging them to adopt a firm stance against the Iranian regime, highlighting its threats to global security. The demonstrators, who are supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), emphasized the need to end Western appeasement policies toward Tehran and called for the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. They also demanded the reactivation of UN Security Council resolutions concerning Iran’s nuclear program, warning that Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons remains a grave threat to regional and global stability.

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Tens of Thousands of Iranians gathered in Paris on Sat. Feb. 8,  to mark the 46th anniversary of the 1979 anti-monarchy revolution and to call for the downfall of Iran’s ruling theocracy. The demonstrators, carrying banners with slogans such as “Death to the Oppressor, Be it the Shah or the Supreme Leader” and “Long Live the Iranian People’s Democratic Revolution”, rejected both monarchical and clerical rule, advocating for a democratic alternative. The event also paid tribute to fallen freedom fighters, particularly those who died resisting both regimes. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), delivered the keynote speech, emphasizing the Iranian people’s continuous struggle against dictatorship. Tens of political personalities and dignatories of European and Iranian decent spoke at this rally. https://tinyurl.com/mtve5dma

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On February 11, For the second consecutive week, families of political prisoners on death row, accompanied by human rights activists, staged a protest outside Evin Prison in Tehran-Iran, demanding the reversal of execution orders. Holding photos of their loved ones, the protesters chanted slogans such as “No to Execution” and “Abolish the Death Penalty”, calling for an end to capital punishment. The Iranian regime's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of Pakhshan Azizi, Behrouz Ehsani, and Mehdi Hassani, while Azizi’s request for retrial has been rejected. Additionally, Vahid Bani Amerian, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, Pouya Ghobadi, Seyed Abolhassan Montazer, Babak Alipour, Seyed Mohammad Taghavi, and Varisha Moradi remain on death row in Evin Prison. At the same time, Mohammad Javad Vafa’i Thani faces execution in Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad. https://tinyurl.com/yepr72cn

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On the morning of Thursday, February 6, Mahtab Qazizadeh was hanged in Sari Central Prison in Iran. She's the second woman executed in 2025 in Iran. Mahtab, a 47-year-old mother of two from Sari, the capital of Mazandaran Province, was arrested four years ago on charges of murdering her husband and was sentenced to death. Maryam Kaviani was hanged on February 1 in Parsilon Prison in Khorramabad. https://tinyurl.com/nhd5hrt3

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Parvin Advaei, a resident of Marivan, who was detained by security forces in January 2025, has been transferred to Sanandaj Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, the women’s ward of Sanandaj Prison in Iran. This is not the first time Parvin Advaei a civil rights activist has faced arrest. On July 27, 2019, she was detained by Marivan’s Intelligence Department forces. Following three months of imprisonment, she was released on a hefty bail of 5 billion rials. The Revolutionary Court in Marivan later sentenced her to five years in prison for alleged membership in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK). The sentence was subsequently reduced to two years by the Provincial Appeals Court. https://tinyurl.com/bdhrzzyr