On January 8 and 9, the Iranian regime mowed down thousands of protesters all across the country. Raha was one of them, killed by a bullet that pierced her lungs.

The legendary dissident filmmaker on the arrest of his Oscar-nominated co-screenwriter, protester crackdowns in Iran, and his ...

In the 1978-79 revolution that toppled the shah and ushered in Iran’s Islamic government, the first great jolt of violence ...

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“Holders will be dealt with firmly,” said Iranian Brigadier-General Hossein Rahimi, head of the Economic Security Police.

He went out for freedom,” said the cousin of one of those who was killed when Iranian authorities mounted a deadly crackdown ...

Andrew England Trump was, of course, referring to his decision to briefly join Israel’s 12-day war against the Islamic ...

Massive protests rocked Iran in recent weeks but appear to have largely subsided after a brutal crackdown that has left at ...

Near the starkly imposing tomb of Cyrus the Great, who founded the Persian Empire in 550 BC, I met an Iranian who summarized ...

That changed in late December, when nationwide protests again swept Iran and quickly drew global attention. Within days, ...

Carlisle Rivera, who prosecutors say was hired as part of a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Iranian dissident Masih ...

The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago — the ones that erupted after a young ...