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5 Feb 2026, 15:50

🔸Mohammad Habibi, spokesperson for the Coordinating Council of Cultural Associations, announced that the number of students killed in the recent protests has surpassed "160." He wrote in a post on X: "This number means that so far, at least 5 complete classrooms have been massacred."
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🔸Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that his country is making every effort to prevent the region from being drawn into a new conflict following tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The Turkish President urged the leaders of the U.S. and Iran to negotiate with each other. He told reporters on his return flight from Egypt that "negotiations at the leadership level will be beneficial after discussions at lower levels."
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🔸J.D. Vance, the U.S. Vice President, stated that the main decision-maker in Iran is Ali Khamenei, and the inability to speak directly with him has made diplomacy extremely difficult. Vance said: "The main decision-maker in Iran is the Supreme Leader. The President practically has little significance." He also described Iran's Foreign Minister as someone who seems to communicate with Khamenei and is the person through whom the U.S. is "effectively" in contact with the Supreme Leader. However, Vance added: "But when you can't even talk to someone who truly runs the country, negotiating with such a country is strange and difficult." He noted this is in contrast to the possibility of direct phone communication between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Russia and China.
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🔸Amir Jadidi, a cinema actor, announced via a message on his Instagram that he will "stay away" from the Fajr Festival. Previously, Elnaz Shakerdoust, Sahra Asadollahi, and Hooman Sidi had announced they would not attend the Fajr Festival. Saeed Zamani, the producer of one of the films announced for this edition titled "Calmative," had also stated earlier that he would withdraw from the festival in solidarity with the people. Additionally, by the morning of Thursday, February 5, despite nearly half of the films in this edition being screened at the media cinema, no other well-known actors besides Mehran Ghafourian and Elnaz Malek attended the film press conferences. The lack of announcement regarding the names of the jury members, despite nearly half of the festival days passing, is also considered an unprecedented occurrence in this recent edition.
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Mehran Ahmadi, a theater and cinema actor, reacted to Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian's comments, the creator of works for the IRGC's Owj Organization, by saying: "You have no right to label us as cowards. When our youth are rolling in their blood in the streets of this city and this country, we are mourning, not being cowards. A mourner does not participate in any festival."
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🔸Sajjad Salarvand, a legless mountaineer and the fastest runner in the T62 class of the Iranian Paralympic Committee, was arrested by the IRGC Intelligence one day before his departure to the UAE for the Dubai Marathon. According to reports, Salarvand has now been released on bail but must appear in the Tehran Revolutionary Court on Sunday, February 19. This athlete from Doroud, Lorestan, wrote on his Instagram page that he was arrested on charges of "acting against national security, media propaganda, and disturbing public opinion" and had been in Greater Tehran Prison.
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🔸Two representatives from the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. introduced a bill to support freedom of internet access in Iran. According to a statement released on Wednesday, February 5, on the website of "Claudia Tenney," a Republican representative from New York, she, along with "Eric Swalwell," a Democratic representative from California, has introduced a bipartisan proposal titled "Internet Access and Communication Bill Now for Iran." The aim of this bill is to strengthen U.S. efforts to increase Iranian citizens' access to a free internet and support the Iranian people in achieving fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms. According to this report, this bill will for the first time provide a legal framework for the regular updating of the U.S. government's strategy to promote Iranians' access to free internet.
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