Iranians have found a way to complain about prices that no prosecutor can touch: they film themselves dancing beside the groceries, insist they are delighted, and explain that if they were not, they would be executed.
The United States is investigating whether its forces were responsible for a deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday, as evidence emerged suggesting the building may have been directly hit by a US munition.
Alireza Sepahi, sentenced to death over Iran’s January uprising, faces execution again after being moved to solitary confinement, weeks after a medical emergency halted his first scheduled execution, an informed source told Iran International on Thursday.
A rights group has asked German prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity by Iranian authorities, presenting evidence of thousands of killings and mass detentions during nationwide protests that began in late 2025 and early 2026.
The UN’s fact-finding mission on Iran called for the immediate withdrawal of legislation that could expose Iranians to up to 30 years in prison for contact with foreign individuals and organizations, according to a statement released Thursday.
Five months after Iran's women footballers sought asylum in Australia, the football federation has called the squad back into camp, not to train but to film a documentary about what happened there. Some of the players it wants on camera are the ones who came home under pressure.
Iranian security forces killed a 31-year-old protester outside his family home two days after he was shot and wounded during demonstrations in Shahroud, northeastern Iran, several sources close to him told Iran International.
Iranians are victims of decisions made by their own authorities and of repeated episodes of mass repression, Jérôme Bonnafont, France’s UN ambassador and president of the Security Council for September, said as he outlined the council’s Iran agenda.
An Iranian court has sentenced Ali Zarei Doozdarresi, a protester shot by security forces and blinded in one eye during the 2022 protests, to death after he returned from Germany and was arrested upon arrival in Iran, US-based rights outlet HRANA reported.
Iranian security forces on Monday used gunfire and beatings to disperse two protests by young jobseekers in southwestern Iran, as anger over unemployment and alleged discrimination in hiring spills into the streets.
A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan has sentenced 10 protesters to death and six others to prison terms of up to 25 years over the nationwide demonstrations in the central Iranian city, according to an activist-run Telegram news channel.
A Revolutionary Guards veteran who fought in Syria helped command a deadly crackdown on protesters in Shahriar near Tehran, as security forces used coordinated lethal tactics across Tehran province during nationwide protests in January, an Iran International investigation found.
Economic hardship and a lack of stable jobs are driving children and teenagers in Iran’s border regions into kolbari, the hazardous practice of carrying goods across mountainous frontiers for money, Iran's labor-focused news agency ILNA reported on Sunday.
A letter expressing solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners has ignited an extraordinary ideological backlash, raising concerns among human rights advocates about how political narratives and disinformation can shape perceptions of repression in Iran.
An Iranian court has sentenced a 27-year-old mechanic to death on charges including cooperation with Mossad and moharebeh, or “waging war against God,” the Hengaw human rights organization reported.
Iran’s rising wave of raids, arrests and property seizures against Bahá’ís amounts to “state-sponsored theft,” the Bahá’í International Community’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva said, citing hundreds of incidents since the January crackdown.
A court in Iran has sentenced Leila Abolhassani, a 43-year-old mother of two teenage daughters detained during the January protests in the central city of Shahin Shahr, to death on charges of “waging war against God,” a source familiar with her case told Iran International.
The Iranian general who has threatened Persian-language journalists abroad as potential military targets has a history of incendiary attacks on critics and was among officials who initially dismissed reports that Iran had shot down Flight PS752.
Two more protesters detained during Iran’s nationwide demonstrations in January have been sentenced to death, US-based rights group HRANA reported, amid a rise in executions and capital sentences following the unrest.
Iranian authorities flogged two women detained during January’s protests 31 times each before transferring them to prison to serve custodial sentences, according to rights groups.
The family of a British couple detained in Iran called on the UK government on Wednesday to arrange an urgent consular visit and medical checks, saying British diplomats had yet to see them since the embassy returned to the country last week.
Iranian security forces used mosques across Tehran to deploy personnel, monitor protesters and support operations during the January crackdown, evidence obtained by Iran International shows.