Iran's security forces are using lethal force against protesters nationwide, informed sources told Iran International, with preliminary estimates pointing to mass casualties as a sweeping crackdown unfolds amid a near-total internet shutdown.
Internet experts are warning that Iran’s sweeping nationwide internet blackout is being used to shield lethal crackdowns on protesters, cutting off evidence of state violence as unrest continues across the country.
A nationwide internet outage has gripped Iran, according to London-based internet monitoring group NetBlocks, shortly after massive crowds poured into the streets following calls for nationwide protests.
Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on Wednesday, state media said, in a case authorities described as involving the transfer of sensitive security information and direct coordination with alleged Israeli operatives inside the country.
At least 36 people have been killed during ongoing protests in Iran, a US-based human rights group said, as merchant strikes and street demonstrations spread to 285 locations across 92 cities nationwide on the tenth day of unrest.
At least 29 protesters have been killed and more than 1,200 people arrested during nine days of nationwide protests in Iran, US-based human rights group HRANA reported on Monday.
Protests were held across Iran for the eighth consecutive day, with demonstrations, strikes, and student unrest reported at 222 locations across 78 cities in 26 provinces, a US-based human rights group reported, as the overall death toll rose to 20.
A landmark criminal lawsuit filed in Argentina by victims of the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement signals a new push to hold Islamic Republic officials accountable beyond Iran’s borders.
Eight Baha’i women were arrested on Saturday morning after reporting to the Isfahan Office for the Enforcement of Sentences and were transferred to a local prison to begin serving their prison terms, Iran International has learned.
Iranian security and law enforcement forces prevented families of political prisoners executed in the 1980s, including during the mass killings of summer 1988, from entering Tehran’s Khavaran cemetery on Friday to commemorate their relatives, according to activists and witnesses.
A 56-year-old Iranian radiologist who evaded execution but received a long prison term for his participation in Iran’s 2022 protests says he has launched a hunger strike to protest what he describes as “inhumane” treatment in prison.
Iran carried out at least 1,922 executions in 2025, more than twice the number recorded the previous year and the highest figure documented in over a decade, according to a new annual report published by a US-based human rights group.
Afghan refugees deported from Iran have faced arbitrary detention, torture and extrajudicial killings after returning to Afghanistan, according to an investigation by Afghanistan International.
An Iranian revolutionary court in the northwestern city of Urmia has sentenced a man to death on charges of cooperating with Israel, according to information received by Iran International and people familiar with the case.
A group of UN human rights experts and more than 400 prominent women from around the world on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the execution of political prisoner Zahra Shahbaz Tabari held in Lakan Prison in Rasht.
Iran detained about 2,000 people accused of links to enemy intelligence networks during and after the 12-day war with Israel in June, a senior armed forces official said on Tuesday.
“Only in 48 hours, the Islamic Republic regime executed more than 17 prisoners,” the US State Department said in a post on its Persian-language account on Tuesday.
Being born in Iran—not just entering from there—is now affecting even Iranians already living in the United States in how immigration cases are being handled, attorney Ali Rahnama told Iran International.
Norway’s foreign ministry on Monday confirmed the detention of one of its citizens in Iran, a spokesperson for the ministry told Iran International.
The US State Department called on Iran to release people detained after a memorial ceremony for Iranian human rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, warning of risks of abuse and unfair treatment.
Iran carried out the execution of an architecture student convicted of spying for Israel on Saturday, the judiciary announced, despite sustained concerns raised by rights groups over his detention, trial process and allegations of torture.
Amnesty International called on Iranian authorities on Friday to immediately release 16-year-old Mahmoud Baluchi Razi, arbitrarily detained since December 7 and subjected to torture to force his father to surrender.