The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran and ...

Israel ended the Hamas ceasefire with deadly airstrikes across Gaza, days after the U.S. ordered an offensive against the ...

The Iranian regime continues to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of citizens across the country, and this is to crush ...

For Iran's clerical leaders, engaging with the "Great Satan" to hammer out a nuclear deal and ease crippling sanctions may ...

Prosecutors say the men helped direct a murder-for-hire scheme aimed at Masih Alinejad. The trial is expected to show Iran’s ...

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a ...

The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.

Reza Khandan is behind bars again. Sotoudeh, who was awarded the European Union's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2012, has been fighting for human rights in Iran for more than 25 years. In ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, a famous Iranian protest singer, was given 74 lashes in a deal to end a criminal case against him. The case was filed against Yarrahi for speaking out against Iran's strict dress ...

angered by the fatal 2023 train crash, clashed with riot police. The fresh wave of unrest followed nationwide demonstrations demanding accountability for the railway disaster that killed 57 people, ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian musician known for protest songs that call out his country ... Yarrahi, 42, was arrested in August 2023 and then sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court to two ...