Tehran’s governor has called for schools used by other state bodies to be returned before students begin the new academic year, months after military and security forces deployed at schools during the US-Israeli war.
An Iranian protester shot in the leg during January’s demonstrations remains unable to walk after 23 operations, with further treatment ahead, medical bills mounting and concerns for his safety persisting months after the shooting.
Iran is putting two faces of its justice system on display: highly publicized acts of compassion for thousands of prisoners, alongside an execution campaign that has killed hundreds and continues to put protesters on death row.
Rows of black body bags became one of the defining images of Iran’s deadly January 2026 crackdown, as families searched among covered bodies and thousands of photographs for relatives killed or missing during the unrest.
Eighteen prisoners held at Dastgerd prison in the central Iranian city of Isfahan could face death sentences over unrest and a fire at the facility, according to a judicial document obtained by Iran International.
Australian Senator Raff Ciccone condemned threats against journalists by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, telling Iran International they were “outrageous” and an attack on press freedom.
Iran is preparing to issue a new compulsory hijab directive for universities, a senior official said Tuesday, as hardliners intensify pressure on women over mandatory veiling ahead of the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody.
A 34-year-old protester shot in the Iranian city of Qazvin on January 8 has undergone five major operations and months of largely secret medical care as doctors work to save and reconstruct his badly damaged leg.
The 25-year-old fiancée of a protester killed in Iran’s January crackdown and the father of another slain demonstrator have died by suicide within days of each other, sources familiar with the cases told Iran International.
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.