{"id":338312,"date":"2025-10-18T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338312"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:45:38","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-october-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-october-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 October 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Cologne, Germany, held a rally and photo exhibition on October 11, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h3>\n

UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statement By the High Representative on Behalf of the EU The Alignment of Certain Countries Concerning Restrictive Measures against Iran<\/h3>\n

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Following the re-imposition of all nuclear-related UN sanctions and restrictions related to Iran on 28 September 2025, the Council decided to reintroduce EU nuclear-related sanctions towards Iran that have been suspended or terminated under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA). The Council notably decided to reintroduce restrictive measures against 11 persons and 101 entities listed in Annex II to Decision 2010\/413\/CFSP whose names were previously mentioned in Annex VI to that Decision, and to update the corresponding entries. The entries concerning the other persons and entities whose names were previously mentioned in Annex VI, and for which the Council decided not to re-impose restrictive measures, are deleted from Annex II. Annex VI is deleted.<\/p>\n

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Iran Extends Internet Clampdown Beyond Wartime<\/h3>\n

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Throughout its 12 days of war with Israel in June, Iran enforced a near-total internet blackout on its people, saying that it was a necessary security measure to stop Israeli infiltration. Though the authorities have since technically lifted the blackout, internet activists, tech entrepreneurs and rights monitors say that a wartime chokehold on the web remains, leaving many Iranians still in the dark.<\/p>\n

Digital rights experts say that internet speeds have been slowed,\u00a0online traffic<\/a>\u00a0has been curtailed and geolocation positioning services, or GPS, are jammed. The use of\u00a0satellite internet tools<\/a>\u00a0like Starlink, which could allow users to bypass such blocks, has been criminalized.<\/p>\n

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Why Has the World Not Woken Up to Iran’s Execution Spree?<\/h3>\n

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Once again, Iran’s death machine is operating at full throttle, and once again, the West looks away. Is no one paying attention because the world\u2019s focus is fixed on Gaza and Ukraine? While the global headlines are dominated by those conflicts, Iran\u2019s rulers are quietly carrying out one of the most barbaric killing sprees in modern history and getting away with it.<\/p>\n

In just 14 and a half months, under President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian regime has executed over 2,000 people. Let that sink in. Over two thousand lives snuffed out by hanging, often in secret, always without fair trial, and sometimes for nothing more than political dissent. That\u2019s an average of nearly five executions a day. Yet the world, seemingly numbed or distracted, offers little more than murmurs of disapproval. Where is the outrage? Where are the resolutions? Where are the sanctions? Where is the moral backbone?<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Rebellious Youth Target Regime Centers of Repression, Support Striking Prisoners in Ghezel Hesar<\/h3>\n

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On Tuesday, October 14, Iran\u2019s rebellious youth launched 15 fiery responses against regime targets in support of a\u00a0strike by 1,500 death-row prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison<\/a>. These prisoners are crying out: \u201cEvery day, many of our fellow inmates are sent to the gallows. We need support. Genocide and mass killings are taking place in Ghezel Hesar Prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a warning to every executioner, judge, death-penalty agent, and regime official, the defiant rebellious youth, in a series of operations across various cities of Iran, attacked the regime\u2019s organs and symbols of repression as follows:<\/p>\n