A statement by student associations across Iran has denounced the tighter grip the regime has increasingly wielded over universities and other independent institutions in recent weeks.
President Hassan Rouhani’s Minister of Education, Mohammad Bat’hai, has ruled out the idea of Baseej militia force’s intervention in schools.
After months of contradictory announcements by Iranian authorities on the fate of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Iran on political charges, the Islamic Republic has again tightened the screws.
While as many as 3,700 are reportedly behind bars after widespread anti-establishment protests in Iran, Iranian MPs have promised to visit Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Family, activists and eyewitnesses dispute official claims that two detained protesters committed suicide in Iran.
A controversial video of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from 1989, when he was appointed supreme leader, is raising questions about his leadership.
President Hassan Rouhani has called on Iran’s state-run TV and other media outlets to stop spreading rumours and portraying the country’s situation in a bad light in the aftermath of recent protests.
In a statement published Tuesday, January 9, Amnesty International (AI) called upon Iranian authorities to immediately investigate reports that at least five people have died in custody.
A 19-year-old participant in Iran's recent street protests says that while the wave of public demonstrations has subsided, the antiestablishment unrest in December and early January opened many Iranians' eyes and the underlying anger remains.
Afghan lawmakers are urging their government to undertake a range of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic steps to stop Iran from recruiting Afghans to fight its war in Syria.
The head of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, has said the country is keeping close tabs on Iran.
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![In the video from 1989, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tells the Assembly of Experts before his appointment that "we should shed tears of blood wailing for the Islamic society that has been forced to even propose me [as supreme leader]."](https://gdb.rferl.org/dfa12d4e-bfd4-4a10-b39e-11de1b3970e9_w100_r1.jpg)
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