Southeast Asia Reacts to the Iran War
Photo: MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images Blog Post by Lauren Mai and Gregory B. Poling Published March 5, 2026 Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued a joint statement on March 4 calling for an immediate ceasefire following the U.S.-Israeli surprise strikes on Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The ASEAN ministers urged all countries involved to respect international law and the UN Charter, including protecting c
Thailand denounces Iranian attack on ship
Ambassador summoned in Bangkok as efforts continue to rescue three trapped sailors. Three Thai crew members were still trapped in the engine room of the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree on Thursday morning after it was struck by Iranian missiles while travelling through the Strait of Hormuz on March 11. (Photo: AFP) Writer: Bloomberg and AFP Published: March 12, 2026 Thailand on Thursday denounced the attack on a Thai-flagged cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz and summoned I
Bangkok Post
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Genocide Alert: Future Consequences of the War in Iran
By Michał Jagielski Senior Iran and Central Asia Team Leader Genocide Watch On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel fired a salvo of missiles, hitting several targets across Iran and starting the ongoing war . As of March 5, the conflict has killed over 1,000 Iranians, including 168 schoolgirls and staff in the attack on an elementary school in Minab, 77 Lebanese, 11 Israelis, 11 people in other affected countries,and six U.S.soldiers. US and Israeli bombing
Genocide Watch
Mar 6
Hezbollah drone strikes UK RAF airbase in Cyprus
Two more drones intercepted on Monday, authorities say, in what appears to be sustained targeting of base Flashes appear in the sky over RAF Akrotiri, as seen from Pissouri, Limassol District, Cyprus. Photograph: KitasWeather/Reuters March 2, 2026 A one-way attack drone – said to have been launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah – struck the UK’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus at about midnight on Sunday, prompting a partial evacuation of the military facility. Two more drones were suc
Genocide Watch
Mar 2
Lebanese civilians flee amid Israeli strikes on Beirut
Highways gridlocked as thousands evacuate while Israel launches its deadliest assault on Lebanon in over a year, killing 31 people. A displaced family fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon arrives in the southern port city of Sidon, early Monday. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo] Lebanese civilians have fled southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs as a deadly escalation erupts between Israel and Hezbollah. Many are seeking sanctuary in makeshift shelters across Lebanon
Al Jazeera
Mar 2
At least 80 children dead as missile hits school in Iran
By Deepa Parent and Tess McClure The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive An image taken from Iranian state television broadcast on 28 February showing what it says is the site of US and Israeli strikes that hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran. Photograph: Alex Mita/IRIB TV/AFP/Getty Images Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they
The Guardian
Feb 28
US’s & UK’s 1953 Iranian Coup: A Cautionary Tale
By Michał Jagielski Pahlavi’s name is on the lips of many protesters, who chant that they want the “shah” back. | John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images On December 28, 2025, Iranians began widespread protests against the Islamic theocratic regime’s mismanagement of the country’s economy. Food prices had surged by 72% compared to the previous year. Inflation hovered around 40% . The Iranian rial continued to lose value monthly. The government responded with a brutal crackdown
Genocide Watch
Jan 28
Genocide Emergency: Rojava and Northern Syria
Kurdish women braid their hair during a demonstration in Erbil in solidarity with Kurdish female fighters in Rojava (northeast Syria), January 23, 2026. © Safin Hamid / AFP Genocide Emergency: Rojava and Northern Syria January 2026 Rojava (the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria) is facing a coordinated campaign of annihilation. Following the collapse of the Assad Regime and Ahmed al-Sharaa's (Abu Mohammed al-Julani) rise to power, Damascus’s
Genocide Watch
Jan 27
Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000
by Kay Armin Serjoie, Roxana Saberi, and Fatemeh Jamalpour Candles are placed next to printed portraits of some of the civilians killed in protests in Iran on Jan. 24, in Inner Alster, Hamburg.Gregor Fischer—AP As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll. So many people were slaughtered by Iranian security services
TIME (Time Magazine)
Jan 26
Iran Under Brutal Dictatorship: Nation Silenced by Force
By Raziya Masumi Since December 2025, Iran has witnessed a new wave of protests that initially emerged from the country’s working class. What began as labor-centered demonstrations soon evolved into a nationwide social movement. Workers, facing chronic economic hardship, unpaid wages, inflation, and deteriorating living conditions, raised their voices to demand fundamental rights. However, these demands rapidly transcended economic grievances and turned into broader calls for
Raziya Masumi
Jan 20
Iran protests: What we know so far
Protests began over the fall in value of the currency have grown into wider demonstrations and calls for the fall of Iran’s clerical establishment By Kate Lamb Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Friday, 9 January 2026. Photograph: AP Escalating protests have swept through Iran in recent weeks, sparked by an economic crisis that has evolved into a widespread anti-government movement, and one of the most destabilising episodes of unrest the Iranian reg
The Guardian
Jan 14
Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge From Iran
As many as 3,000 feared dead as witnesses describe government forces firing on unarmed protesters. By Erika Solomon , Farnaz Fassihi , Sanam Mahoozi and Sanjana Varghese An image taken from social media and verified by The New York Times shows people looking for relatives as bodies piled up outside Tehran’s forensics laboratory on Sunday.Credit ...via Reuters As the Iranian authorities impose a near-total communication blackout on a country convulsed by mass protests, videos
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