Opinion|What Iran Did Not Want You to SeeIn the wake of an internet shutdown, one human rights researcher sifts through video evidence of atrocities.VideotranscripttranscriptWhat Iran Did Not Want You To SeeIn the wake of an internet shutdown, one human rights researcher sifts through video evidence of atrocities.It’s really shocking. You see the security forces who are just shooting. The protests were triggered by a massive rise in the fuel price. And within hours of the protests starting, the authorities resorted…

The estimated death toll of the protests ranges from at least 161 protesters to over 366 protesters. The Islamic Republic has demanded that some families pay for the cost of the bullets used to kill relatives during nationwide anti-government protests as the estimated death toll continues to rise. Human rights NGO Amnesty International reported that Iranian authorities would demand the payments for the bullets or compensation for destroyed property when returning the victims' bodies to their families. Families have also…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Meng Wanzhou on her way to court in Vancouver in September, as part of her fight against extradition to the US A Chinese Huawei executive who was arrested in Canada a year ago has published an open letter detailing her life on bail and thanking supporters.Meng Wanzhou - the chief financial officer and daughter of Huawei's founder - is fighting extradition to the US on charges of violating sanctions against Iran.In her widely read letter,…

Image copyright Amazon Studios Image caption L-R: James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are heading off the road and into the water for their latest special - The Grand Tour presents: Seamen.The trio are seen sailing along the Mekong river and through the treacherous conditions of monsoon season in Vietnam and Cambodia in the 90-minute film.As you can imagine, the first obstacle at the show's press launch is trying to get past…

What started as a protest over a surprise increase in gasoline prices turned into widespread demonstrations met with a systematic repression that left at least 180 people dead.A burned bank after protests against increased fuel prices in Tehran last month.Credit...Nazanin Tabatabaee West Asia News Agency, via ReutersPublished Dec. 1, 2019Updated Dec. 3, 2019Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed — and possibly hundreds more — as angry…

Iran International is a private broadcasting company owned and licensed within the United Kingdom, with no affiliation to the Islamic Republic. A mural of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Qom (photo credit: REUTERS) London-based Iran International Television is coming under scrutiny by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry claiming that employees working for the broadcasting company are "proof of collaboration in terrorist actions with the enemies of Iran." The ministry added that security officials have arrested numerous Iranians on charges…

Image copyright PA Media Image caption UK intelligence agencies, including GCHQ (pictured), have close ties with their US counterparts Would a change of government alter the UK's security and intelligence relationships?Yes. And no. If that sounds like an evasive politician's answer, that's because there are many layers to this question.When an attack takes place, like the one around London Bridge on Friday, all parties rightly come together in their condemnation of the perpetrator and the underlying extremist ideology that inspired…

Image copyright BBC/Two Rivers Image caption Fiona Gilbertson with her boyfriend, Raymond, in the 1980s. They were both heroin users. Raymond later died of Aids In the mid-1980s Edinburgh became known as the Aids capital of Europe. A new deadly disease, cheap heroin and the hardline attitudes of the authorities were the ingredients for a public health disaster. The disease had first surfaced in the US where it became stigmatised as the gay "plague" because it was mainly affecting homosexual…