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Iran's acting education minister Reza-Morad Sahraei, a life-long Basij operator, has threatened protesting university students and professors with expulsion.

Rights groups fear the Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi, jailed for his anti-regime lyrics, will be given the death sentence.

Iran has sentenced a protester turned rebel to death for the killing of a nine-year-old during unrest in November, although the victim’s family insists he is innocent.

The Islamic Republic has condemned the latest Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, carried out in retaliation for rocket attacks presumed to be linked to Iran-backed militias.

French and Iranian foreign ministers held a face-to-face meeting in Beijing Friday, with varying accounts emerging from the discussion.

The past year was a year full of tensions and Iran faced complex behaviors by Western powers, nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said at the Friday Prayers in Tehran.

Zahedan has been a scene of regular protests for the past several months with its Sunni cleric Mowlavi Abdolhamid delivering Friday prayer sermons decrying regime atrocities.

Iran's security forces Thursday violently attacked teachers’ protests in Tehran and Karaj, detaining several some of whom were reportedly freed a few hours later.

Echoing recent remarks by Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei, judicial authorities say those who oppose compulsory hijab rules are in league with intelligence agencies of ‘enemies’.

The Berlin Police say the request for a permit for the "Quds Day" demonstration, which was supposed to be held on Saturday April 15, was withdrawn by organizers.

Iranian journalist and activist Hossein Razzagh, imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, has had his sentence extended by four years.

After two days of serious Israeli-Palestinian flare ups, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and hardline media have so far remained unusually quiet on the issue.

A moderate Iranian news website claims the Islamic Republic’s frozen assets in China are worth between $22 and $30 billion, suggesting that even Tehran’s close ally would not pay back its debts.

Iran International sources have provided further information about the newly intensified Israeli attacks on the targets affiliated with the Islamic Republic in Syria.

In a move might have been encouraged by the Iranian government, several commentators and former diplomats have called for the resumption of nuclear talks.

US State Department says reports about the administration planning a partial, interim nuclear deal with Iran are “rumors” that “tend to seldom be accurate.”

As tension mounts between Iran and Azerbaijan, Baku says it has arrested six Iran-funded agents accused of a coup plot.

A barrage of rockets were fired on northern Israel Thursday in the worst such tensions since the 2006 war, which could lead to expanded conflict and involve Iran.

Fresh antiregime rallies took place Wednesday night in the Iranian capital Tehran as people gathered outside the home of one of the protesters killed by the Islamic Republic.

Chaos has ensued in Iran’s financial and currency markets as the government tries to restrict the sale of cash US dollars.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has once again attributed the anti-hijab protests to “enemies” abroad.