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A rapper arrested in October on capital charges in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests needs urgent medical treatment, a rights group said Thursday, urging an international campaign for his ...

Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media ...

Weekly protests against Iran’s clerical leaders continued in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan as thousands took to the streets on Friday, according to footage circulating on social ...

President Joe Biden used a White House event to mark Persian New Year on Monday to pay tribute to Iranian women and girls who took to the streets of Iran to protest following the death last year of 22 ...

Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women's rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and ...

The activist group 1500tasvir released a list of more than 40 girls’ schools across Iran, spanning over 20 cities and towns, where students were reportedly poisoned on Saturday.

Iranian security forces have been forcing schoolgirls to watch pornographic videos during mandatory sessions aimed at discouraging their participation in anti-regime protests, according to a report ...

Protesters in southeastern Iran on Friday took to the streets displaying slogans against the Iranian government despite an intense security presence and apparent blocking of the internet, activists ...

Protests erupted in several cities across Iran on Thursday to mark 40 days since the execution of two protesters, footage circulating on social media showed.Last month, Mohammad-Mehdi Karami and ...

The German government has acknowledged an increase in spying by Iranian intelligence agents on exiled Iranians living in Germany since the start of mass protests last year, Welt am Sonntag newspaper ...

Iranian expatriates in Australia opposed to the Iranian regime have reported their families in Iran being targeted by authorities due to their political beliefs.Massoud Modabber, a supporter of the ...

Iran’s security forces have been systematically targeting the eyes of demonstrators in their crackdown on the protests that have swept the country since September, a human rights group said ...

Social media images purported to be of an emaciated jailed Iranian physician who went on hunger strike in support of demonstrations against the compulsory wearing of the hijab have caused outrage and ...

Hundreds of global figures from Nobel laureates to actors have issued a joint plea urging “unstinting” support for Iranians protesting against their country’s regime in defiance of a bloody ...

An Iranian, sentenced to death for allegedly attacking security forces during protests triggered by last year’s death in custody of Mahsa Amini, has been given a stay of execution, the judiciary said ...

An aide to Sunni Muslim cleric Molavi Abdolhamid, an influential leader of Iran’s ethnic Baluchi minority, was arrested in the restive southeastern city of Zahedan late Monday, state media ...

Rights groups warned that several young people, including teenagers who’ve been jailed by Iran for their involvement in anti-government protests, are at risk of being executed, and have been ...

An Iranian journalist who was arrested after interviewing the father of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked months of protests, said Saturday she had been sentenced without a court hearing. ...

An Iranian court has sentenced a prominent activist and vocal supporter of nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death to more than five years in jail, his lawyer said Thursday.Arash Sadeghi, a ...

The US House overwhelmingly approved a resolution Wednesday expressing solidarity with people in Iran who have been risking imprisonment and even death to protest against the country’s theocracy.The ...

An Iranian archer who had lost sight in her left eye after being shot by security forces has said she has “no regrets” for joining nationwide protests.Iranian authorities have cracked down on more ...
Iran was the second place in the world for internet censorship in 2022 after repeatedly shutting off the internet in parts of country and blocking access to social media platforms to curb protests ...

Despite a brutal crackdown by security forces, the province of Sistan-Baluchistan has witnessed protests weekly after Friday prayers since late September.

As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a “death committee” overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say.Now president three ...

Thousands of members of the Iranian diaspora from all over Europe on Monday demonstrated in the EU parliament host city of Strasbourg to urge the bloc to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...