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🔸 Mohammad Habibi, spokesperson for the Teachers' Trade Union Coordination Council, announced that the number of students killed in recent protests has exceeded "160 people." He wrote in a post on X: "This number means that so far, they have massacred at least 5 complete classrooms." @VahidHeadline
🔸 Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is making every effort to prevent the region from being drawn into a new conflict following tensions between the US and Iran. The Turkish President called on American and Iranian leaders to negotiate with each other. Speaking to reporters on his return flight from Egypt, he said "leader-level talks would be useful after lower-level negotiations." @VahidHeadline
🔸 JD Vance, US Vice President, says the main decision-maker in Iran is Ali Khamenei, and the impracticality of speaking directly with him has made diplomacy extremely difficult. Vance says: "The main decision-maker in Iran is the leader of the Islamic Republic. The president has virtually no significance." He described Iran's Foreign Minister as someone who appears to communicate with Khamenei and is the person through whom the US is "practically" in contact with the Islamic Republic's leader. However, Vance added: "But when you can't even talk to the person who actually runs the country, negotiating with such a country is strange and difficult." He said this is unlike the possibility of Donald Trump's direct phone communication with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Russia and China. @VahidHeadline
🔸 Amir Jadidi, film actor, announced in an Instagram post that he will "stay away" from the Fajr Festival. Previously, Elnaz Shakerdoust, Sahra Asadollahi, and Houman Seyyedi had announced they would not attend the Fajr Festival. Saeed Zamanian, maker of one of the announced films of this edition called "Sedative," had also previously said he would withdraw from the festival in solidarity with the people. Also, as of Thursday morning, February 5th, despite screening nearly half of this edition's films at the media cinema, no other well-known actors besides Mehran Ghafourian and Elnaz Malek have attended the films' press conferences. The non-announcement of jury members' names, despite nearly half the festival days having passed, is also considered one of the unprecedented events of recent editions. @VahidHeadline
Mehran Ahmadi, theater and film actor, released a video responding to comments by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, creator of works for the Revolutionary Guards' Owj Organization, saying: You have no right to label us as cowards. When our youth were bathed in their own blood in the streets of this very city and country, we are in mourning, not cowardly. A person in mourning does not participate in any festival. @VahidHeadline
🔸 Sajjad Salaravand, a legless mountaineer and fastest runner in the T62 class of Iran's Paralympic Committee, was arrested by Revolutionary Guards intelligence one day before his departure to the UAE for the Dubai Marathon. According to this report, Salaravand has now been released on bail, but must appear in Tehran's Revolutionary Court on Sunday, February 8th. This athlete from Dorud, Lorestan, wrote on his Instagram page that he was arrested on charges of "acting against national security, media propaganda, and disturbing public opinion" and was held in Tehran's Grand Prison. iranintl
🔸 Two representatives from the US Democratic and Republican parties presented a bill to support freedom of internet access in Iran. According to an announcement published Wednesday, February 4th on the website of Claudia Tenney, Republican representative from New York, she along with Eric Swalwell, Democratic representative from California, presented a bipartisan proposal titled "Iran Internet Access and Contact Act Now." The purpose of presenting this bill is stated as strengthening US efforts to increase Iranian citizens' access to the free internet and supporting the Iranian people in achieving fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms. According to this report, this bill provides for the first time a legal framework for implementing and regularly updating the US government's strategy to advance Iranians' access to free internet. @VahidHeadline
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