Thirty-one years after the bombing of AMIA, Argentina’s main Jewish community center, victims mourned the dead and officials pointed an accusing hand at Iran just as Tehran's policies are in focus after a war with Israel last month.
Guards at a military facility in central Iran shot four civilians dead on Thursday night, Iranian state media reported, in the second fatal shooting incident by security forces since a 12-day war with Israel.
Three of Iran’s most resource-rich provinces, Khuzestan, Kerman and Hormozgan, recorded the highest levels of economic hardship in spring 2025, the news site Rokna reported Thursday, citing official statistics from the Iranian Statistics Center.
Iran’s escalating mass deportations of Afghan refugees are putting thousands of women and girls at serious risk of Taliban persecution, Amnesty International said Thursday, calling on Tehran to halt what it called flagrant violations of international law.
As forced deportations of Afghan migrants from Iran escalate, Afghans are pushing a nationwide boycott of Iranian goods in protest.
The European Union on Tuesday sanctioned eight individuals and one entity tied to Iran for what it described as serious human rights violations and acts of transnational repression including assassinations and enforced disappearances of dissidents abroad.
An Iranian doctoral student arrested in Louisiana following US airstrikes on Iran must be released and protected from deportation, a federal magistrate judge ruled on Monday, the New York Times reported.
Iran’s communications ministry confirmed deliberate GPS jamming affecting millions of people in the wake of a war with Israel and said it is considering adopting China’s BeiDou in order to thwart drone and missile attacks.
Fifteen human rights organizations issued a joint statement Saturday calling for international action to halt the looming executions of three Arab political prisoners from Ahvaz who were transferred to solitary confinement earlier this month.
Iran has arrested at least 21 Christian converts in recent weeks, with some facing charges under a new law targeting alleged collaboration with hostile states, a rights group said.
Iran’s judiciary has filed 50 cases in Tehran against individuals accused of collaborating with Israel, judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said Saturday, pledging swift prosecution and no leniency.
Serkan Eren, founder of the Stuttgart-based aid group STELP, has been prevented from leaving Iran since June 28 following a humanitarian mission in Tehran, German public broadcaster SWR reported.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday called on Iranian authorities to stop threats against activist Narges Mohammadi, after she reported receiving death threats from the state.
At least 95 Iranian journalists and media organizations faced 110 judicial and security actions between January and June 2025, according to the Defending Free Flow of Information Organization (DeFFI).
A proposed Iranian law expanding espionage and national security charges and criminalizing ties with foreign entities has been halted for revision following a review by the country’s top oversight body.
Iran International confirmed on Tuesday that recently published materials from the hacked Telegram accounts of its journalists are linked to two separate cyberattacks carried out in the summer of 2024 and January 2025.
A media outlet affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has openly called for the mass execution of perceived enemies of the state, invoking the precedent of mass killings carried out in 1988 following a decree by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
A nationwide internet outage likely imposed by the Tehran beginning just after midnight on July 6 has deepened concerns among a weary public over the already parlous state of the economy and access to information.
Iran has accused detained political activist Hossein Ronaghi of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic in favor of Israel” over an Instagram story he posted after the start of Israel’s strikes during the recent 12-day war, Iran International has learned.
Five Kurdish men detained during the 2022 protests in Iran have been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in the city of Urmia, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said on Monday.
A widespread internet blackout hit Iran on Saturday night, disrupting global access for millions once more, the first such shutdown since mass outages across the country during the conflict with Israel.
Iran has stepped up deportations of undocumented Afghans in the wake of the recent conflict with Israel, using unproven spying allegations to accelerate a longstanding deportation drive.