Mothers without headscarves walked daughters in regulation hoods to school in Iran this week. Women who remember 1980 describe the same scene from the year the state began imposing hijab. The picture is identical. What has changed is the society around it.
Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN that Iran would not accept the language of force. Iranians writing to Iran International had one reply: that is the only language his government uses at home. Their messages picked apart what he said, what he left out, and how he said it.
Iran's judiciary said six officers had been indicted over the abuse of a teenager in Tabriz, but did not include sexual assault among the charges despite video that showed the boy being sexually humiliated by police.
One morning your phone simply stops working. There is no warning, no explanation and often no piece of paper telling you what you have done. Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Iran v.3.1.
Iranian authorities executed IT expert Hossein Pedaran after what sources familiar with his case described as months of solitary confinement, severe physical and psychological pressure and a forced confession.
Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in suppressing nationwide protests in January while two US strikes on civilian sites in February amounted to war crimes, the UN fact-finding mission on Iran told the Human Rights Council on Monday.
The spokesman for Iran’s mass mobilisation campaign said children under 15 could be introduced to military concepts, while denying that minors were receiving formal weapons training as authorities expand a civilian defence drive launched during the war.
Iran has executed a man it accused of passing information about missile sites in Isfahan to Israel's Mossad, the judiciary said on Saturday, the latest in a series of espionage executions that rights groups say rest on confessions extracted in detention.
An Iranian woman sentenced to death over January’s anti-government protests is struggling to walk but has been denied hospital treatment despite a prison doctor saying she urgently needs an MRI, her family told Iran International.
Videos showing women running without headscarves at a road race in Tehran went viral on Friday, months after a similar event on Kish Island prompted action against its organizers.
A 21-year-old taekwondo athlete shot by Iranian security forces during January protests has died after undergoing about 30 operations, according to information received by Iran International.
Iranian state authorities organized a systematic, high-level campaign of murder, torture, and sexual violence to crush the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, according to a 1,000-page investigation published by Amnesty International on Wednesday.
Four years after Mahsa Amini’s death, the deepest legacy of Woman, Life, Freedom may be that Iran cannot simply be returned to the society it was before September 2022.
A video showing Iranian police beating and sexually humiliating a teenager while officers laugh, insult him and film the abuse has unleashed fury across Iranian social media, with users asking what may happen beyond public view.
Some cancer patients in Iran are selling essential household goods or abandoning medication as soaring drug prices and gaps in insurance coverage put treatment beyond the reach of low-income families, a charity director said on Thursday.
Iranian security forces committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on nationwide protests, a UN fact-finding mission said on Thursday, citing mass killings, torture and arbitrary detention.
The Italian city of Imola has dedicated a green space to Mahsa Jina Amini, marking the fourth anniversary of her death in Iran’s morality-police custody and honoring the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that followed, a Bologna-based daily newspaper reported.
In September 2022, the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police ignited a fire that still burns.
Four years after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, Iran International asked women on Instagram to describe the first time they went out without a headscarf. The answers came back in the same four registers: fear, freedom, grief and solidarity.
Twenty-five surgeries have failed to end the ordeal of a protester shot during January demonstrations in Iran, with a severe infection still spreading through the wounded leg and a 26th operation now planned, Iran International learned.
Iranian security forces fanned out across several western cities on Wednesday as shopkeepers shut down businesses to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, according to videos and messages sent to Iran International.
Iranians writing to Iran International this week did not see a diplomatic visit. They saw the men they hold responsible for January's massacre walking free in New York, and they asked the city's mayor, who once promised to arrest Netanyahu, why.