The U.S. State Department has condemned hefty prison terms for three Iranian anti-compulsory hijab female activists who have been detained in Iran.
Fourteen workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Industrial complex in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran, stood trial on Wednesday, August 14, reports say.
A series of various videos published on social media in Iran showing public officials in embarrassing sexual acts have led to controversy.
Photojournalists in Iran covering celebrities are being targeted by security forces in what some believe to be an effort to build legal cases against dissident superstars.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed the U.S. plan to form a military coalition in the Persian Gulf to protect navigation as "superficial and impractical.
The former mayor of Tehran, who has been sentenced to death for murdering his second wife, has been pardoned by the victims family and will not be executed.
An Iranian-British anthropologist, Kameel Ahmady, was arrested at his home in the Iranian capital city Tehran on Sunday, August 11, his wife disclosed on Wednesday.
The Islamic Republic security agents have arrested at least seven Iranian Baha'is in the past ten days, reports say.
The Secretary of Iran's National Security Council has been accused of corruption by a whistle blower on social media.
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi announced on Tuesday, August 13, that the Islamic Republic's enriched uranium stockpile has reached 370 kilograms.
Iran's reformist political faction seems to have split as one of the groups constituting its backbone has officially pulled out of the lose-knit political force.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned allies about the approaching end of some of UN arms and other sanctions against Iran.
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali Hakim has said Israel’s participation in a U.S.-led coalition to protect shipping in the region is “unacceptable”.
For a second time in less than a month, Iran-backed militias in Iraq have sustained losses at their bases, as fire broke out Monday at a weapons depot causing explosions on the outskirts of Baghdad.
In the clampdown against dissidents in Iran, another activist who signed a letter asking for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, has been arrested.
Domestic critics of the Islamic Republic and its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have launched renewed attacks on the regime in recent weeks by voicing their protests in public statements and calling on the Supreme Leader to resign.
Iran’s foreign ministry reacting to reports that France has offered to deposit $15 billion in a trade mechanism to help Iran conduct business regardless of U.S. sanctions, says that no proposal is yet definitive.
The commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) navy has said Iran will assure the security of the Strait of Hormuz as long as it is able to export oil.
In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, 8,700 Iranian citizens have called for lifting the house arrest of Iran’s Green Movement leaders, confined to their homes since 2011.
Radio Farda reports that ten dissidents were arrested in Mashhad, Iran for supporting a call on Ayatollah Khamenei to resign.
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