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Hardliner Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Esmail Kowsari has threatened security forces of consequences if they “do not fulfill their duties” during the crackdown on popular protests.

Grassroot groups have been created in Iranian cities to organize antigovernment protests that have become regular phenomena in the country, one such popular groups said Saturday.

Current protests in Iran are quite unique this time as people from every walk of life vow not to go back to their homes before they oust the Islamic Republic.

The furlough of Iranian-American citizen Siamak Namazi, who is held hostage in Iran over espionage charges, has been extended for another three days.

Lebanon's Iran-backed group Hezbollah is using all its propaganda tools to show support for the Islamic Republic and misrepresent the current nationwide protests in Iran.

A senior Iranian lawmaker has asked the government to pursue legal complaints against Iran International TV for its coverage of protests that “invited riots.”

Five leading Iranian economists have suggested to the Iranian government to listen to protesters in the streets and prepare itself for fundamental changes.

Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi has called for continuation of nationwide strikes and protests across Iran to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

Nationwide protests started in Iran before noon on Saturday after activists earlier in the week called for fresh demonstrations against the government.

An Iranian lawmaker says the authorities have shut off Internet access in the country because of the role foreign-based Persian TV channels play in the current uprising.

Iran’s state broadcaster was hacked in the middle of its main news program Saturday night transitioning from a clip showing the Supreme Leader to chants of “women, life, and freedom.”

Amjad Amini, the father of Mahsa, the young woman whose death sparked the uprising in Iran, has rejected Iranian coroner's report that her daughter did not die du blows to her head.

Iranian security forces opened fire at protesters in two Kurdish cities on Saturday amid nationwide protests that started at universities in the morning and are continuing on streets.

While outraging United States President Joe Biden, the Opec+ decision to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day has mixed implications for Iran.

Hundreds of students held a protest at Al-Zahra University -- a female-only public university – against Ebrahim Raisi while the president was speaking to his cherrypicked supporters inside a hall.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Friday that he spoke with Iranian women’s and human rights activists about how the US can continue to support protestors in Iran.

The Ukrainian military claimed Saturday that Russia has sent Iranian military drones to Belarus for possible attacks in western or central parts of Ukraine.

Iran's top clerics, police chiefs and Friday imams spurned nationwide protests and attributed the ongoing uprising to foreign countries and economic problems.

The French Foreign Ministry has urged all its nationals to "leave Iran as soon as possible given the risk of arbitrary detention to which they are exposed."

Canada has finally announced sanctions against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), permanently banning over 10,000 of its officers from entering Canada.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering a bill to support global Internet freedom, following government disruption of access in Iran amid protests.