London-headquartered TV channel Iran International reports that at least 12,000 people have been killed in Iran during anti-government protests – largely over Thursday and Friday night. A massacre…
The broadcaster cites sources in the presidential office and within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as well as field reports. It adds that those killed were “mainly shot by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij” in the largest spate of killings in the country’s contemporary history. The internet blackout continues for its sixth day as authorities attempt to block Starlink access…
Reliable figures differ but numbers are starting to climb substantially. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights group says the death toll could be 6,000. US Human Rights Activists News Agency puts the figure at 646. Expect figures in the hundreds to rise…
Trump is discussing options today and has slapped anyone trading with Iran (read: China) with a 25% tariff. Meanwhile, Starmer so far has offered platitudes, signing a joint statement on Friday with the leaders of France and Germany saying they were “deeply concerned about reports of violence by Iranian security forces” and that “Iranian authorities have the responsibility to protect their own population and must allow for the freedom of expression.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said this morning the regime is in its “final days” and is “effectively finished.” Where is Starmer…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”