crackdown

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A key player in the crackdown on mass protests, he was previously a commander of the aerospace force of the IRGC, then Iran’s police chief before becoming Tehran’s mayor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Harsimran Singh, who owns a trucking company in Manteca, Calif., has found it harder to find drivers since the crackdown on English skills as foreign-born truckers are becoming worried about traveling to certain states.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Iranian students are reviving protests against the Islamic Republic, bringing cohesion to the movement after a brutal crackdown.

From The Wall Street Journal

UN experts, including the special rapporteur on human rights for Iran Mai Sato, stress that internet restrictions and widespread detentions make it "impossible to determine the true scale of the violent crackdown" at this stage.

From BBC