Amnesty International has called on Iran to release six rights activists arrested since February 1.
A teachers’ trade union association in Iran is protesting what it calls the repression of teachers by security agents across the country.
Tehran’s hard-line provisional Friday Prayer leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, has explicitly threatened protesters in Iran with the death penalty.
Members of parliament in Iran have prepared a motion for to designate a venue for legal protests.
The National Front, one of Iran’s secular political organizations, has called for a permit to hold a public gathering in Tehran on March 5.
Amid the charged atmosphere of political turmoil, economic instability, and acts of protest against the cultural status quo, the 36th edition of the prestigious Fajr Film Festival opened in Tehran on February 1.
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has asked its members around the world to protest against the “harassment” of labor activists and “systematic violation” of workers’ rights in Iran.
After previously rejecting it, the Iranian Parliament has approved the general outlines of President Hassan Rouhani’s proposed budget bill for the next Iranian year, starting March 21.
A long-running child sexual abuse scandal, reaching the inner circle of Iran’s Supreme Leader, shows no sign of ebbing.
An Iranian MP who visited Tehran's Evin prison says the presence of agents did not allow them to confidentially speak with prisoners.
A group of Iranian MPs say they have visited Tehran’s notorious Evin prison as promised to check on the treatment of prisoners, especially those arrested during a recent wave of protests.
Iran’s ministry of foreign affairs has rejected criticism of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) by conservatives.
Iranian intelligence agents have arrested a second young woman for removing her hijab in public to protest the country’s strict dress code for women, the woman’s lawyer told Radio Farda.
A U.S.-Iranian dual citizen of the Zoroastrian faith and his wife have been given prison sentences and had their assets seized in a closed-door trial in Iran.
Video clips published in Iranian social media indicate that renewed protests took place against the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic in the evening of January 29 in several cities.
At least six women in Tehran and one in the provincial capital Esfahan reportedly defied Iran’s morality police January 29 by removing their head scarves on a busy street, attaching them to a stick, and waving them around like flags.
Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist cleric who has been under house arrest for seven years now, has criticized Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a letter published on social media in Tehran, on Tuesday 30 January.
Deputy director of Iran’s chamber of commerce, Mohammad Reza Hariri has said that China’s ABC Bank is reactivating suspended accounts of Iranian citizens.
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