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 …
Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has called upon the leaders of Iran to either allow a referendum to determine the popularity of the current ruling system or let the people freely protest and present their …
The most striking images coming out of the Iran human rights protests are not of men – they are of women. And while American media was slow and even hesitant to pick up that anything …
Oil prices posted their strongest opening to a year since 2014 on Tuesday, with crude rising to mid-2015 highs amid large anti-government rallies in Iran and ongoing supply cuts led by OPEC and Russia, Reuters …
As protests over Iran’s faltering economy rapidly spread across the country, a channel on a mobile messaging app run by an exiled journalist helped fan the passions of some of those who took to the …
An Iranian cleric had issued a fatwa to members of a terrorist cell which kidnapped Saudi Judge Mohammed al-Jirani over a year ago, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday. The fatwa ordered killing and burying Jirani 48 …
Residents in the Iranian city of Mashhad took to the streets on Thursday demonstrating against unemployment and poverty, Al Arabiya reports. Protesters raised the slogans “Death to Rouhani, and Death to the Dictator”. Usually, the …
Iranian media are reporting a 5.1-magnitude earthquake in the southern Kerman province. The semi-official IRNA news agency says the temblor rocked the village of Hojedk, about 700 kilometers south of Tehran on Wednesday. Hojdak is …
A 12-year-old girl has been summoned to disciplinary committee because of her photos of being published in gymnastics costumes! Kiana Abdipour has allegedly participated in a gymnastic match in Malaysia with a ‘non-Islamic’ costume, during …
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