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An Iranian appeals court changed the sentence handed to Grammy Award winner Shervin Hajipour for making the viral song Baraye.
Reza Rasaei, a 34-year-old Iranian activist arrested in 2022 during the "Women, Life, Freedom" protests that swept Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, has been executed.
A spokesman for Iran's judiciary has denied Western media reports that authorities have arrested several people, including senior intelligence officials, over the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.
Incredible footage has emerged from Iran showing a woman, defying the law by not wearing a mandatory head scarf, singing the Amy Winehouse hit Back To Black on the streets of Tehran. The woman, Zara Esmaili, has now been jailed.
Iran says punishing Israel will prevent further instability in the Middle East, but that it does not want to escalate tensions already running high after the assassination in Tehran of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the U.S.- and EU-designated Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who arrived in Tehran on August 4 on a rare visit to discuss rising tensions in the Middle East, said he was not carrying a message from Israel to Tehran, but he nevertheless pleaded for "peace, stability, and security" in the troubled region.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said on August 3 that a short-range projectile was behind the killing of Ismail Haniyeh and accused the United States of supporting the attack, which it has blamed on Israel.
Iranian political prisoner Shakila Monfared has started a hunger strike in protest against two new charges, her brother Ashkan Monfared said on July 31.
A funeral ceremony has concluded in Tehran for Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Iran-backed Palestinian extremist group Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the EU.
Analysts are warning that the chances of a wider regional war in the Middle East are increasing following the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
Iran said Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas, was killed on July 31 in Tehran in a raid that it accused Israel of carrying out.
An Iranian court has ordered Grammy Award winner Shervin Hajipour to begin his prison sentence for making the viral song Baraye, according to a July 30 Instagram post.
The U.S. Treasury Department on July 30 announced sanctions on individuals and entities that have aided Iranian ballistic missile development and procurement through Tehran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics.
Masud Pezeshkian was sworn in as Iran's new president in parliament on July 30 after he won a snap presidential election earlier this month and inherited an economy hammered by mismanagement and sanctions and a society that has shown it will take to the streets to demand basic freedoms.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser says Berlin is in secret talks to deport “criminal” asylum seekers.
Dozens of people have been put to death in Iran over the past week, after a lull in executions during the recent presidential election period.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Masud Pezeshkian as the new president on July 28 and instructed him to focus on cultivating relations with Iran’s neighbors rather than Western nations.
Government offices and banks throughout Iran were to remain closed on July 28 to avoid overtaxing power networks amid "extreme and unprecedented heat," which prompted similar shutdowns earlier this week, officials said.
An Iranian Kurdish prisoner convicted of killing a cleric has been executed despite complaints from rights groups over a lack of transparency in the judicial process.
A historian who fled Iran in the aftermath of the 2009 protests is at risk of being sent back.
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