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.

The lawyer of the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old girl whose death in mid-September while in police custody has led to months of nationwide unrest in Iran, says the primary investigator has ...

Iran has witnessed a wave of nationwide protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old ethnic Kurd, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's dress code for ...

They are among the people Iran has hastily sentenced to death in its campaign to quash ... the killing of the Basij member during protests in that city. The court relied on forced confessions ...

Mohammad Ghobadlou's mother urged Iran's judiciary chief to ... that a court in Isfahan had sentenced to death three people over an attack during protests in the city on 16 November in which ...

Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build “several” nuclear weapons if it chooses. That's according to the United ...

Iran has sentenced an ethnic Iranian-Kurdish pregnant woman being held in Urmia Central Prison to death, according to an ...

At least 9 people have been killed in Iran amid protests following the death of a woman in morality police custody over her improper wearing of the mandatory face covering. Protests have spread ...

Mahsa Amini’s death unleashed years of built-up anger in society over issues like the economy, discrimination against ethnic ...

In a tense exchange, Iran's top diplomat has accused Paris of being intentionally confrontational while his French ...

Influential Iranian opposition figure Arash Sadeghi was sentenced Thursday to another five years in prison following his ...

Parisa Gadheri (left) addresses the crowd at the "Woman, Life, Freedom" event. A wave of women-led protests has swept across Iran for more than four months following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa ...