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Canada's government has announced senior officials of the Islamic Republic have been officially banned from entering Canadian soil.

Tens of artists in Iranian cinema, theater, and music industry have been banned from working or leaving the country over their support for antigovernment protests.

Leading reformist figures in Iran have recently made statements that reveals their interest in preserving the status quo despite popular protests aimed at changing the political system.

Iran and China hired private investigators to spy on opposition figures living in the United State, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s latest round of shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan region has drawn condemnation by Western countries as well as the Iraqi government.

Britain has slapped a new round of sanctions on 24 Iranian officials who played a role in cracking down on protests after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.

The European Union sanctioned 29 Iranians and three entities Monday over what it said was human rights violations related to suppression of ongoing protests.

Many are criticizing Iran’s Sunni leader Molavi Abdolhamid for meeting with the Ali Khamenei's envoy despite the killing of many protesters in his native region.

Student antigovernment protest movement in Iran continued Monday with university and school students expressing solidarity with their detained colleagues.

Amid ongoing antigovernment protests, former president and the de-facto leader of Iran’s reformists Mohammad Khatami has spoken against regime change, calling it neither possible nor desirable.

President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was unlikely and that a regional conference should be called by year end.

Iran says it has taken measures to provide countries whose citizens “stirred violence” during the recent protests, with documents proving their role.

Tehran residents rushed to a hospital Sunday night as news emerged that imprisoned Iranian dissident Hossein Ronaghi had been taken there in a critical condition.

Iranian lawmakers who had asked for the execution of detained protesters seem to be backing down, by denying that they sent a letter to the hardliner Judiciary.

Israeli missiles hit a major air base in Syria's Homs province Sunday, killing two servicemen and injuring three others, the state news agency SANA reported.

A Revolutionary Court in Iran has issued the first death penalty against a protester and another court sentenced five others from five to 10 years in jail each.

Demonstration continued in Iranian universities Sunday as people are preparing for three days of protest rallies in honor of over 1,500 protesters killed by security forces in November 2019.

Iranian dissident blogger Hossein Ronaghi’s health has life-threateningly deteriorated because of his hunger strike and other medical conditions at Tehran’s Evin Prison.

Almost half of the Internet service providers in Iran have seen a 50% drop in sales due to disruptions, censorship, and Internet shutdowns by the government during protests.

While Iran’s football team is about to embark on its World Cup journey in Qatar, the Islamic Republic is worried that the event serves as an opportunity for antigovernment protests.

A quarter of Iran’s farmers have lost their jobs in the past seven years mostly due to lack of water, a local media outlet reported Sunday.