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Iranian protesters have gathered in the streets of Shiraz and Behbahan, chanting slogans against the country’s establishment.
Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi says she has been suffering from symptoms similar to those of COVID-19.
Two Swedish nationals have been arrested in Iran in a crackdown on an international drugs-trafficking network.
A powerful explosion at a medical clinic in northern Tehran has killed at least 19 people, Iranian media report.
Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian opposition journalist and activist whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, has been sentenced to death for his actions following what Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called a “grossly unfair” trial.
The United States has unveiled new sanctions against the Iranian metallurgical sector, blacklisting several companies, including domestic and foreign subsidiaries of the country's main steel producer.
Police in Tehran say three people have been arrested for attempting to sell newborn babies via the social-media site Instagram.
A fugitive Iranian judge facing possible extradition to his homeland on charges of corruption died at a hotel in Romania from a fall, a preliminary autopsy has concluded.
A prominent Iranian NGO that fights poverty says its founder and two other members have been detained.
A former Iranian judge sought by his homeland to face corruption charges has been found dead in Romania’s capital, officials say.
Iran has criticized a plan to put forward a resolution at a meeting of the UN's nuclear watchdog urging the country to allow inspectors access to two disputed sites.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has again pressed Iran to provide inspectors with access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material.
Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, a legendary actor in Iranian film, theater, and television, has died at the age of 90.
According to Iranian authorities, a man they say passed on information about the whereabouts of a top Iranian general who was killed in a U.S. air strike in Iraq earlier this year has been sentenced to death.
An Iranian scientist who had been detained in the United States has landed in his homeland amid denials from both countries that his release is part of a prisoner swap.
An Iranian scientist detained in the United States has left the country and is on his way back to his homeland, Iranian officials say, although they deny it is part of a prisoner swap.
Khuzestan has become Iran’s first province to officially ban women's boxing.
Three Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with "armed insurgents" in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, Iranian media report.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called for harsher laws to tackle so-called "honor killings" after the particularly shocking slaying of a teenage girl, allegedly by her father, prompted a nationwide outcry.
The representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the southwestern province of Khuzestan has visited some of the people who were wounded by security forces during a protest over a lack of drinking water last week.
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