Mahsa Amini
The announcement was released by the governments of Australia, Canada, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S.
The 300-megawatt facility, known as Karoon, will reportedly take eight years to build at a cost of some $2 billion.
While the protests sweeping the Islamic Republic are significant, Tehran will probably weather them, experts tell JNS.
“The anger has been building up for 43 years. People are getting more and more frustrated by the minute,” said Sayeh Saadet, who is Jewish and grew up in Iran during the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Washington says Tehran has shown little interest in moving forward with the negotiations.
Maurice Motamed, a Jewish former member of Iran’s parliament who currently lives in Los Angeles, sparked controversy by meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in New York.
Ayatollah Khamenei laments the “injustice” faced by Iranian security forces amid the widespread unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
“Iranians in more than 80 cities across Iran are risking their lives to fight for human rights and protest the oppressive regime following the death of 22-year-old #MahsaAmini,” AIPAC tweeted.
Death toll of clashes between Iranian civilians and security forces rises following the death of an Iranian woman arrested over “failure to wear a veil.”
At least 41 people have died in a crackdown on the demonstrations.
