The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Iran to cease jailing members of the press for their work after a 72-year-old journalist began a three-year prison sentence over his coverage of protests last year.
Iran has blacklisted the U.S. ambassador to Yemen in retaliation to sanctions imposed by Washington against Tehran's envoy to the Huthi rebels fighting in the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
Kermanshah Prosecutor Shahram Karami says Iran's security forces have arrested four people for advertising with live models in a promotional video.
Iranian architect Amirali Sardar-Afkhami, designer of Tehran's City Theater Complex and Iran's new parliament building, has died in Paris. He was 91, and allegedly died of old age, reports said on Tuesday.
Amnesty International has hailed a letter sent by UN experts to the Iranian government pressing for accountability over notorious prison massacres of dissidents in 1988.
The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up its pressure on Iran by imposing sanctions on the country's ambassador to Yemen's Huthi rebels.
Ukrainian officials in charge of investigating the January 2020 downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Tehran say they have not yet received the documents promised by Iran.
The United States has included Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan on a list of 10 countries designated for "particular concern" over religious freedom.
A flood in the Firoozabad palace of Ardeshir Babakan, the founder of the Sassanid Empire, has destroyed part of the historical complex.
An Iranian official has rejected online rumors that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is gravely ill, saying that the 81-year-old cleric was going about his business as usual.
Iran’s Supreme Court has said it will review the cases of three young men sentenced to death over links to anti-government protests in November 2019.
German diplomat Helga Schmid, a key participant in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, was appointed secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), becoming the first woman to head the post.
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