The UN Security Council is planning an emergency meeting about Iran on Friday after the U.S. asked the world body to show support for Iran’s anti-government protesters, The Washington Post reports. With council members divided in …
Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo slammed the U.S. government’s recent wide-ranging attempts to intervene in the domestic affairs of the Islamic Republic, Tasnim News reports. Iran’s UN ambassador condemned the U.S. …
Across Iran, citizens have taken to the streets for the last six days, protesting government oppression and the rising cost of goods. Videos coming out of the country show increasingly intense clashes between protesters and …
Amid deadly protests in Iran, the UN’s human rights head said he is “deeply concerned” while the secretary-general urged for “further violence to be avoided,” as the Islamic Republic’s Guardian Council blamed its “sworn enemies,” …
Sources in Ahwaz told Al Arabiya.net that Iran has deployed members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization forces to suppress the ongoing anti-regime protests. According to sources, they have been deployed alongside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and …
Iran’s most fervent regional foes, Saudi Arabia and Israel, are both eagerly looking for signs of vulnerability and imminent change in their nemesis amid the past week of protests across the country. But they’ve taken …
Three members of Iran’s intelligence forces were killed in clashes with armed counter-revolutionary teams in the western city of Piranshahr on Wednesday, a security official said as quoted by Tasnim News. The announcement further added …
Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi urged the people of Iran to engage in civil disobedience and press on with nationwide protests that are posing the boldest challenge to its leaders since pro-reform unrest in …
A video surfacing on social media appears to show protesters in Iran apprehending an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) member and taking his pants off amid increasingly violent protests against the regime. The video, published …
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC hinted that a former government official was involved in sparking the protests, with some believing it was a reference to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Al-Monitor reports. …
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