People in cities checkered across Iran are welcoming Nowruz and paying their respects to the country's heroes and heroines, ...
They are the Basij, Iran's volunteer paramilitary ... Guard and law enforcement forces organized their reaction. See timeline of events in Iran » While experts say there is a hardline ideological ...
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri assured that the country’s military forces are ready to safeguard the Islamic Republic, even if it means sacrificing ...
Authorities in Iran ... The Basij are (at least in theory) subordinate to, and receive their orders from, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, to whom ...
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks during a meeting ... the supreme leader is empowered to command the armed forces, dismiss any elected official, countermand parliamentary ...
Citing a report by rights group Amnesty International CNN reported that child detainees in Iran face severe torture and ...
“Basij agents forced ... In response, Iranian forces conducted a fresh wave of nationwide arrests. Iran’s judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi announced on Monday that the country’s Supreme ...
Amid renewed protests six months into the unrest, the Iranian establishment's heavy-handed response appeared to have failed ...
An informed source attributed the sound of an explosion heard by the residents of Karaj in northern Iran on Thursday night to a nocturnal military exercise performed by the Basij forces.
DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday ... of this crime should be severely punished," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by state media. Over a thousand Iranian ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the wave of suspected ... a woman in the northern city of Rasht said security forces had fired tear-gas at concerned mothers protesting ...
