"The regime wants the people of Iran to think that they're alone and the world is ignoring them, but the show of solidarity from the diaspora is good for morale at home," says Iran expert Alireza Nade.
This is the "first time we have seen a movement on such a scale in Iran," says Farah Pahlavi.
Washington condemns Iran for targeting Kurdish areas in Iraq and says administration will continue to pursue sanctions and other means to disrupt Tehran's "destabilizing" activities.
Far removed from politics, the family of Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of Iran's so-called "morality police" prompted nationwide protests, is still trying to make sense of her death.
The former UN envoy said that instead of letting Iran’s president deliver a speech at the UN, the US should be publicizing the stories of the anti-regime protesters.
In an effort to help sustain internet connection, the United States is making exceptions to its sanctions regime on Iran – a move which Tehran said on Saturday was in line with Washington's hostile stance.
At least nine people killed in Iran as protests spread nation-wide over the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's so-called "morality police."
The protester beseeches for help as demonstrations erupt following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while in the custody of Iran's so-called "morality police," who had arrested her after finding fault with her hijab. Video circulating on social media shows women take off their hijabs in public in protest.
Raisi, who is accompanied by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, is to address both the General Assembly and a UNESCO meeting on religions.
Ebrahim Raisi also says that Tehran will make ‘no concessions’ in nuclear negotiations with world powers.
