Clerics are leading Iranians in public prayers for rain in drought-afflicted regions.
Foreign messaging apps are to blame for recent protests across Iran, according to a group of 170 members of Iran’s parliament.
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami urged Tehran authorities on January 16 to listen to people’s demands and avoid humiliating them.
“100 of the Islamic Republic’s top officials are US permanent residency (green card) holders”, a member of Iranian parliament’s research arm has disclosed.
More than five billion dollars of Tehran’s municipality funds went missing during Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf’s tenure as Mayor of Iran’s capital city, a city councilor disclosed on Monday, January 14.
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.
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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)
![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_w66_r1.jpg)
