Judges connected to Iran’s clerical leaders and security services are meting out long prison terms and death sentences, in an ...

Iranian authorities have executed 55 people in 2023, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Friday, adding that the ...

They are among the people Iran has hastily sentenced to ... He was the second protester known to be officially executed. He was accused of stabbing to death two members of the Basij militia ...

A dual British-Iranian citizen was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and corruption, a state-affiliated media outlet ...

The execution of Alireza Akbari looks set to pile more pressure on Iran's long-strained ties with the West which have ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities have stepped up detaining Sunni clerics in the Kurdish areas following a strongly worded video statement by dozens of influential religious scholars ...

Iran has charged 16 people, including several teenagers, in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia for planning ...

The “Mahsa moment” has left an indelible mark on Iran’s political landscape, delegitimizing the regime and the core pillars ...

The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest by Iran's notorious morality police more than four months ago has sparked the biggest protests in the Islamic republic in years.

Despite a slackening of street activity in the face of a brutal crackdown, Iranian protesters are still challenging the ...

The actions are the latest response to Iran's deadly clampdown on unrest after the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa ...

Iranian authorities have executed 55 people so far in 2023, a rights group said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country.