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.
President Hassan Rohani has said that the Iranian people continue to support the clerical establishment despite foreign pressure but insisted that the country's leaders must listen to protesters behind a recent wave of unrest.
A travel frenzy is gripping young Iranians, who are inspiring each other through social media to overcome traditional constraints and expand their horizons.
One by one, Iranians are publicly defying the so-called hijab rule in echoes of an iconic protest by a 31-year-old mother in Tehran.
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.
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.
Imprisoned Iranian labor activist Reza Shahabi’s health is in a critical state and human rights groups are calling for his immediate and unconditional release.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has recently authorized the withdrawal of four billion US dollars from the country’s foreign currency reserves, officially named the National Development Fund.
Five Western and Arab states make no reference to Assad's future in a document proposing changes to U.N.-led talks, an apparent recognition of his strong position in the conflict.
A member of parliament from Kermanshah province has confirmed that several survivors of the recent earthquake in his constituency have died of frost-bite.
After conferring with “experts,” the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered them to “do something about cyberspace.”
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