IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 21
The regime’s use of extreme violence against protesters in Sistan and Baluchistan Province is likely entrenching long-term frustration against the political establishment there.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least three cities in three provinces.
Unknown hackers claimed to have hacked the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-21
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 22
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 24 cities in 18 provinces on October 22—a significant increase from the protest activity in recent days.
Some marginalized segments of the reformist faction are continuing to criticize the regime crackdown.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and regime media channels claimed a new separatist movement has formed in Azerbaijan’s autonomous Nakhchivan region.
Anti-regime hacker group Black Reward published 50 gigabytes of documents related to the Iranian nuclear program on October 22. The group posted a video that reportedly depicted the Bushehr nuclear facility’s reactor room.[34] It also posted links to documents containing private discussions between Iranian and International Atomic Energy Agency officials, contracts with foreign and domestic entities related to atomic development, strategic planning documents for the Iranian nuclear industry, and passports and visas for Russian and Iranian technicians cooperating on work in the Bushehr facility.[35]
Black Reward first announced a series of cyberattacks against regime institutions and media outlets after emerging online on September 25.[36] The group claims to belong to a larger Iranian hacker community that intends to destroy the “clerical criminal regime for women, life, [and] freedom.”[37]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-22
IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, OCTOBER 23
Iranian university and high school students are sustaining the momentum of the ongoing protest movement, leading the demonstrations into their 37th consecutive day.
A senior Iranian Sunni cleric—Maulvi Abdol Hamid—may emerge as a local protest leader in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.
Anti-regime protests occurred in at least 16 cities in 13 provinces.
Iranian state media and proxy Telegram channels reported that unidentified militants launched four rockets at the al Omar oilfield, which houses US forces, in eastern Syria.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-october-23