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Five Iranian women's rights activists were sentenced cumulatively to more than 20 years in prison, sources told RFE/RL.
Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced on August 12 he had resigned from his new position as vice president last week.
Abbas Araqchi, the Western-educated former nuclear talks negotiator, was nominated on August 11 as Iran's foreign minister by reformist President Masud Pezeshkian.
Iranian courts acquitted journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi of "collaborating with a hostile foreign state," but upheld the five-year prison sentences for other charges against the women who ran afoul of authorities after writing about the death of Mahsa Amini.
Central Asian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics have been punching above their weight this summer, taking home numerous medals in martial arts, shooting, and boxing events, among others. Iran and Pakistan have scored big too.
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other women inmates in Tehran's Evin prison were injured earlier this week in clashes that erupted after a spate of executions, Mohammadi’s family says.
A video of an Afghan teenager allegedly being violently pinned to the ground by Iranian police on August 5 has gone viral, sparking regional outrage. The family of Sayed Mahdi Musavi, 16, say he has hearing and speech disorders and couldn't hear the police officers properly when approached.
Iran appears to be readying the public for war as it weighs its options in response to Israel's suspected killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran last week. State TV in recent days has aired interviews with Iranians calling for Iran to retaliate against the country's archenemy.
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.
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