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Writers Anisha Asadollahi and her husband Keyvan Mohtadi “do not belong in prison” more than 700 activists have said in a letter calling for the couple’s release.

The latest brutal crackdown enforcing hijab comes on the direct orders of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Tehran’s police chief has revealed.

The Iranian automobile workers’ leader has protested against a two billion euro deal to buy electric buses from China for Tehran.

Seven crew members on a Portuguese-flagged ship that was illegally seized by Iran almost a month ago in the Persian Gulf have been released.

Authorities are increasing pressure on Iran’s medical community compelling female health workers to abide by hijab rules, including barring them from medical conferences if their clothing is not deemed Islamic enough.

Iran’s economy is struggling as sanctions bite hard, the Supreme Leader’s chief of staff has said in a rare admission by the regime.

Princeton University has been trying for more than a decade to place itself at the center of US-Iran diplomacy, a new Semafor report has revealed, offering an academic position to a former high-ranking Tehran official.

Dissident Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence has been condemned by human rights ambassadors from across Europe.

Iran will alter its nuclear doctrine if Israel threatens its nuclear facilities or its existence, an advisor to the country’s ruler said Thursday, in a second similar threat in less than a month.

Canada’s government must designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group after a unanimous vote by MPs, Iranian dissidents have urged.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging in what opponents of the regime have condemned as punitive “revenge.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are exploiting partnerships between Swedish and Iranian universities to acquire research and technology for their military programs, according to a new investigation by a US-based NGO.

The Canadian House of Commons on Wednesday unanimously adopted a Report to designate Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist entity and expel about 700 Iranian agents operating in Canada.

Amnesty International has branded Iran's brutal hijab crackdown as a "War on Women" in the wake of the recent Noor plan which has seen security forces violently arresting unveiled women.

Politicians in the United States have slammed the death sentence of Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian singer known for his dissenting views amid the ongoing uprising against the government.

A video showing agents of Iran's hijab patrol forcibly arresting a young woman for failing to comply with the mandatory hijab has surfaced showing her being forcibly thrown into a van as brutal crackdowns continue.

Protests at American university campuses may have had other goals, but their narrative instead served as clear evidence of how Islamists and Marxists can collaborate against Western values and US interests.

Dozens of Baha'i women in Iran have been summoned to court facing baseless criminal charges amid an escalation in the persecution of the Baha'i community.

Iran's government is under fire from the nation's pharmacists following a directive that ties a pharmacy's adherence to the mandated hijab law to its allocation of medicine.

The Israeli Embassy and the Jewish community in Hungary have slammed an invitation extended to Iran’s former president to speak at two university events.

Iran's broad money has doubled during the 2.5-year presidency of Ebrahim Raisi, according to statistics from the country’s Central Bank (CBI).