A 19-year-old British man pleaded guilty Friday to an arson offence over an April attack on offices linked to Iran International in northwest London, while a teenage co-defendant denied the more serious charge of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
Thirty "pioneer families" have arrived on a wave of nationalism driven by Israel's government, but the rapid change has left nearby Palestinian residents fearful.
Palestine groups call for London march against British 'complicity' in Gaza genocide Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 08/20/2026 - 10:41 National march will urge UK to secure an end to Israeli attacks and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza Mourners at the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli army strike on Gaza City's port the previous day, in Gaza City on 19 August 2026 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP) Off Palestine solidarity groups in the UK have called for a national march in London to mark three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and demand an end to what they denounce as British complicity. The demonstration will take place on 10 October, three days after the anniversary of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to a joint statement published on Wednesday. The organisers include the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Friends of Al-Aqsa and the Muslim Association of Britain.
Iran executed Ghaem Hosseini, also known as Arian, a foreign national convicted over his involvement in protests in Isfahan in January, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Thursday.
Gas stations in parts of Tehran closed after running out of fuel Wednesday, while motorists elsewhere in the Iranian capital waited up to an hour to fill their tanks amid mounting fears of a fuel price hike, locals told Iran International.
New posts 11:07 Iran Hangs Man Accused Of Involvement In Killing Officers In January Protests By Kian Sharifi Iranian authorities have executed another defendant in connection with the deadly unrest in Isfahan in January, marking the fifth execution linked to a single high-profile case arising from widespread protests against the Islamic republic's leadership.
Seven months after the January massacre, Iranians answering an Iran International call-out describe lives still bent around it: sleep and nerves that never recovered, friendships remade or broken, politics hardened, and a future they struggle to picture.
Officials of Iran's Basij militia can be heard on a leaked recording weighing the risk of a new round of protests and the danger that members will be identified online, a rare glimpse of the anxiety inside the force the state sends against demonstrators.
Jafar Pourkabgani, a lawmaker representing the southern Iranian province of Bushehr and a former longtime member of the IRGC and Basij, personally fired at protesters during nationwide demonstrations in January, witnesses told Iran International.
As Iran confronts military pressure abroad and mounting economic strain at home, signs are emerging that the Islamic Republic is increasingly turning its attention to another potential threat: renewed unrest on its own streets.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Palestinians, foreign activists and left-wing Israeli activists held a protest Friday in the occupied West Bank town of Qusra before heading toward three Palestinian homes that have been under siege by the Israeli regime for five consecutive days.
Security forces used cultural venues and medical clinics as firing positions, ammunition stores and sites for holding bodies during Iran's January 2026 protest crackdown in Alborz province, according to material reviewed by Iran International.
Tehran's municipality is tearing up the cobblestones of the capital's historic pedestrian zones and laying asphalt, a change officials call traffic management and that architects and urban sociologists read as something older: the redesign of a city to make protest harder.
‘The right to stay’: Albania’s Italian diaspora sails back to support the Flamingo Revolution Submitted by Dalia Ismail on Wed, 08/12/2026 - 14:30 Organisers in Italy connect the Albanian protest movement to the Palestinian cause as part of a wider struggle against land dispossession A flamingo sculpture with a Palestinian keffiyeh and an Albanian flag during a demonstration in support of the Albanian protest movement in Tirana, 17 June 2026 (Antonio Muco/Palestina e Lire) Off From the Italian port of Brindisi, activists from Italy’s Albanian diaspora and from Global Sumud Flotilla Italy will set sail for Albania on 20 August, travelling across the Adriatic to join the Flamingo Revolution , the protest movement against luxury developments backed by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The mission is organised by the Italian-Albanian collective Mesdhe (“Mediterranean” in Albanian) and the Albanian pro- Palestine collective Palestina e Lire (“Free Palestine” in Albanian), together with the Italian branch of the Global Sumud Flotilla , an international civil society initiative aimed at breaking Israel 's naval blockade of Gaza and delivering humanitarian aid to the enclave. It will link the two Adriatic shores with a three‑boat flotilla at a moment when activists in Albania are challenging the privatisation of protected land and the growing influence of foreign investors over the country.
Five people detained over Iran’s nationwide January protests have been sentenced to death or are at risk of receiving death sentences in the northeastern city of Mashhad and nearby Shandiz, sources familiar with their cases told Iran International.
President Masoud Pezeshkian drew angry reactions from Iranians after rejecting higher estimates of those killed in Iran's January protests and calling those who cite such figures "traitors" in an interview published on Wednesday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected reports that tens of thousands of people were killed in the January protest crackdown, accusing those publishing higher death tolls of misleading the public.
Activists storm Israeli Knesset meeting in protest against additional $36m for settlement expansion The Israeli Knesset Finance Committee held a session on Tuesday to approve the allocation of an additional 113 million shekels ($36m) for Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, raising the year’s budget for settlements to a record 821 million shekels ($273m). Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the allocation would be for the “development of more than 70 archeological and heritage sites” in the occupied West Bank, which would be the first of its kind. During the meeting, activists stormed the hall in protest against the decision before being removed from the room, Wafa news reported.
Nurses at a Tehran hospital were beaten and detained, with scores dismissed or suspended, after staging a strike over poor working conditions, Iran International has learned.
Mexican activists call for end to water agreements with Israel Mexican activists have called on the government to end its cooperation agreements with Israel and safeguard the country's water resources. During a demonstration on Saturday, the protesters linked opposition to a water management agreement in the state of Chihuahua with protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. Civil organizations, environmentalists, and Palestine-solidarity collectives from at least 14 states of the country had called for a national march on 1 August to protest against the water cooperation agreement signed between the Central Water and Sanitation Board (JCAS) of Chihuahua and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to Mexico Solidarity Media.
