Tehran’s firebrand Friday Prayer leader has lambasted those who compare today’s Iran with the period that Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi reigned over the country.
Reports received from Iran on social media say angry farmers again launched protests in Isfahan, central Iran on Friday, against “mismanagement of water resources”.
More than two weeks after widespread protests in Iran’s oil-rich southwestern Khuzestan province, the exact number of people detained during the unrest is still unknown.
A high-ranking representative of Iran's supreme leader has said that if Israel gives Iran an excuse, “we will flatten Tel Aviv and Haifa”.
In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.”
Hardline cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, better known as Makarem, has called for execution of “a few main foreign exchange dealers”.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon Iran’s authorities to immediately release a human rights activist who is suffering medical complications resulting from a hunger strike.
The whereabouts of an Iranian Christian convert who was detained by Iran’s security forces more than a month ago is still unknown.
A prominent Iranian economist says 33 percent of the country’s population live in absolute poverty, and six percent are starving.
Iranian authorities have vowed to enforce a single exchange rate to the U.S. dollar in a bid to stop a slide that has seen Iran's rial currency fall by more than one-third in seven months.
Tehran’s Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has once again resigned a few hours after Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri threatened him to step down.
Four Iranians were killed in an airstrike on a Syrian airbase near Homs on, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
Power outages are inevitable next summer across Iran, the country’s energy minister has warned.
Iran denies any connection between the imprisonment of an Iraninan-British mother in Tehran and the UK’s four-decade-old debt to Iran, after Radio Farda aired an interview with her husband alleging the contrary.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned that Washington "will regret it" if the United States violates a 2015 deal between Tehran and global powers to curb Iran's nuclear program.
Iran’s currency took another big hit, falling between 6-9 percent on Sunday, extending a slide to a new record low on continued concerns over a return of crippling sanctions.
The Tehran City Council rejected the resignation of Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi on April 8.
The 2018 World Cup of freestyle wrestling opened on April 7 in the U.S. state of Iowa without Russia and Iran, two traditionally strong teams in the sport.
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