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Fierce nationwide protests that have gripped Iran for the past month mark an inflection point for the country, said the leaders of a powerful exile Iranian dissident group on Wednesday. They urged the United Nations and governments across the globe to immediately expel all Iranian diplomats and escalate pressure on the theocratic regime in Tehran.
U.S. officials said their current priority is supporting Iranian protesters rather than pursuing stalled talks with Tehran on the troubled 2015 Iran nuclear deal that President Trump canceled and President Biden vowed to revive.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are condemning the Iranian regime after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran's religious "morality police" earlier this month for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely in violation of the Islamic Republic's dress code.
Iran launched dozens of missile and drone strikes at Kurdish positions in northern Iraq that are believed to have killed or wounded almost 40 people. Wednesday's attack, the fifth in as many days, resulted in a sharp rebuke from U.S. officials who called it an "unjustified violation of Iraqi sovereignty and territorial integrity."
Iran on Monday accused the U.S. and Europe of directly fueling the deadly popular uprising that has gripped the Islamic republic over the past 10 days, while the West threatened new economic sanctions on Tehran and called for an immediate end to the "brutality" with which Iranian security forces are treating protesters.