Judges connected to Iran’s clerical leaders and security services are meting out long prison terms and death sentences, in an ...

They are among the people Iran has hastily sentenced to ... He was the second protester known to be officially executed. He was accused of stabbing to death two members of the Basij militia ...

The execution of Alireza Akbari looks set to pile more pressure on Iran's long-strained ties with the West which have ...

In the decades before the revolution, Iran was largely ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty. Reza Shah and then his son, Mohammad ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities have stepped up detaining Sunni clerics in the Kurdish areas following a strongly worded video statement by dozens of influential religious scholars ...

Iran has charged 16 people, including several teenagers, in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia for planning ...

The Biden administration on Monday announced new sanctions against Iran related to serious human rights abuses against ...

The “Mahsa moment” has left an indelible mark on Iran’s political landscape, delegitimizing the regime and the core pillars ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The sound of heavy gunfire in the city had finally quieted down that autumn night, as Doctor Shamal ...

The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest by Iran's notorious morality police more than four months ago has sparked the biggest protests in the Islamic republic in years.

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Cooperative Foundation and ...

The actions are the latest response to Iran's deadly clampdown on unrest after the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa ...