Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained on Sunday after trying to storm the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in Iran, activists said.
For nearly two years the United States has tried and failed to negotiate a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, yet Washington and its European allies refuse to close the door to diplomacy.
A Ukrainian senior intelligence official says Russia has received a new shipment of Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A top university professor in Iran has harshly criticized comments by a science ministry official regarding study opportunities for students in North Korea.
Claims by Iranian officials that a female doctor who died with unusual injuries committed “suicide” has sparked suspicions of yet another death in custody.
A high-ranking member of Iranian parliament says that currently almost one fourth of the energy produced in the country is being wasted.
Frustrated over how to block the Internet that savvy Iranians would not circumvent, the Islamic Republic seems to be about shutting down access to the WWW.
The municipality of the Iranian capital Tehran has in a move supported vandalizing the British embassy after anti-UK slogans were painted on its walls.
As Iran’s central bank chief partly blamed political unrest for the national currency’s unprecedented fall, economists express profound doubt about any solution.
The landscape of Iran protests after three months is highlighted by condemnations of the government crackdown as more dissidents are jailed and in danger of execution.
Iran has introduced its new ambassador to Kabul after the previous envoy’s comments regarding the Taliban raised eyebrows among the fundamentalist group.
Hundreds of Iranian literary and cultural figures as well as activists have strongly condemned the execution of protesters calling it “murders organized by the regime.”
A human rights network has warned that at least 39 protesters are currently at risk of execution or death penalty sentences in Iran.
Iranian politician Hojjat Mirzaei, a former economic official, has characterized President Ebrahim Raisi's team as "the weakest of its kind in the past 80 years."
The UN Security Council meets Monday to discuss SC Resolution 2231, passed in 2015 to endorse the Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA).
Iran’s president continues to reiterate Supreme Leader’s claim that dissent is “sedition by enemies,” three months after “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began.
Reports from Iran say there was a clash in a prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, on Saturday as a conflict erupted between prison officials and inmates.
The father of a boy killed in Iran protests has lashed out at the judiciary saying that all Iranians are watching “the unjust actions” and justice will soon be served.
CIA Director William Burns has spoken of a nascent Tehran-Moscow defense partnership just as the US faces “major-power competition with China and Russia.”
Employees and workers at some industrial and operational units in Iran’s oil sector have gone on strike in several cities in the south of the country.
Three months into antigovernment protests in Iran, expression of international support continue, emphasizing that the regime must be held accountable for its crimes.