A conservative member of Iran’s parliament has accused a faction of the Gonabadi dervishes of espionage and collaboration with U.S. and Israeli intelligence services.
Women in Iran have been allowed to attend a men's sporting event in Tehran for the first time in years -- and social media applauds.
In the heat of momentous labor protests and debate over setting a minimum wage, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused “enemies” of fomenting discord among Iran’s work force.
Criticizing Iran’s hardliners for supporting the Islamization of universities, Rouhani said: “There is no Islamic mathematics, physics, or chemistry.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran has recently raised the prospect of designing and building nuclear reactors for merchant ships and submarines.
The government of President Hassan Rouhani wants to unblock the social media website Twitter.
Two senior clerics, officially recognized as grand ayatollahs and sources of emulation by Iran, have compared dervishes to the so-called Islamic State (IS), Daesh militants.
RFE/RL spoke with a Cossack leader and sometime hired gun just after he visited Russian mercenaries thought to have been wounded in Syria earlier this month by a U.S. military bombardment. He shares what he's heard about the battle that night and about how Russians are recruited to fight there.
An independent Iranian labor union has reported that hundreds of steel workers continued to protest on February 21 for the fourth consecutive day outside the governor’s office in the city of Ahvaz.
Saeid Rezaie says that people of Iran never accepted the claim that Baha’i leaders are involved in espionage against their homeland.
Prominent Iranian physicist, human rights activist, and political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has lambasted the Islamic Republic’s judiciary as a part of “dictatorship structure” ruling Iran.
Violent clashes between Gonabadi dervishes and Iranian security forces follow years of tensions and persecution of dervishes whose houses of worship have been destroyed and members detained.
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