The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to name a street junction in memory of Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of the morality police in Iran nearly a year ago sparked months of nationwide protests there.
Los Angeles, the second most populous US city, is home to an Iranian community of nearly 138,000 people, of the up to 620,000 people of Iranian heredity in the US, according to the University of California, Los Angeles.
The intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Rochester Avenue, in an area home to Iranian businesses, will be renamed Women Life Freedom Square in Ms Amini's memory, according to a record of the City Council vote on its website.
The months-long anti-government protests that followed her death soared into the biggest show of opposition to Iran's authorities in years.
The US and Iran have clashed on human rights, Tehran's nuclear programme and its support for regional Shiite militias, but a deal announced on Monday allowing five Iranian Americans to leave Iran removes a major irritant.
Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
Who was Alfred Nobel?
The Nobel Prize was created by wealthy Swedish chemist and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel.
- In his will he dictated that the bulk of his estate should be used to fund "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
- Nobel is best known as the inventor of dynamite, but also wrote poetry and drama and could speak Russian, French, English and German by the age of 17. The five original prize categories reflect the interests closest to his heart.
- Nobel died in 1896 but it took until 1901, following a legal battle over his will, before the first prizes were awarded.
