Iran’s presidential office said a government-affiliated body is reviewing requests from expatriates described as members of the country’s “benign opposition” who have expressed interest in returning to Iran.
Mourners in the western Iranian city of Aligoudarz chanted slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday during the funeral of Omid Sarlak, a young man found dead hours after posting a video of himself burning the leader’s photo.
Oil industry contract workers gathered outside Iran’s presidential office in Tehran on Saturday to protest what they said were unfulfilled government promises to eliminate private contractors and secure direct employment with state energy companies.
Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned death sentences issued against five Kurdish men from Boukan who were arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2022, ordering a retrial in a local revolutionary court, according to rights organizations.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday there is no doubt that gasoline prices must rise, signaling that long-anticipated fuel reforms are moving closer despite fears of renewed public unrest.
Iran’s establishment is bracing for renewed public unrest as UN sanctions squeeze an already fragile economy, Reuters reported, citing officials and experts warning that the government’s options to avert crisis are narrowing.
Iran’s government spokesperson said on Tuesday that the administration does not believe coercion can restore compliance with Iran’s hijab laws, amid renewed debate over enforcement and the deployment of tens of thousands of volunteers in Tehran.
Passengers on Tehran’s subway shouted anti-government slogans on Tuesday after a major service disruption left commuters stranded between stations, according to videos sent to Iran International.
An international human rights conference opened Saturday in Oslo, bringing together Iranian and non-Iranian activists, legal scholars, and political figures to debate the shape of a rights-based future for Iran after the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Nobel laureates Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi praised the selection of 2025 winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, saying her courage and leadership serve as an inspiration for Iran’s pro-democracy movement.
Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a 30-year-old boxing coach arrested in March 2020 protests over gas price hikes, his lawyer said Saturday, hours after the execution of seven other political prisoners.
Protests against university authorities and gripped several campuses across Iran, according to videos sent to Iran International, pointing to widespread anxiety among students which stopped short of overtly political grievances.
A new investigation has revealed how Iranian security forces relied on global supply chains and intermediary companies to obtain weapons later turned on protesters during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
Armored and military vehicles were deployed across Zahedan and other cities in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province on Tuesday as authorities tightened security for the third anniversary of the September 30, 2022 Bloody Friday killings, local outlet Haalvsh and residents said.
President Masoud Pezeshkian’s reference at the UN to Iranian children killed by Israeli strikes triggered a backlash at home, where many asked why he did not also acknowledge the dozens of children slain by Iranian security forces during the 2022 uprising.
A video circulating on social media shows security guards clashing with visitors at the Marble Palace in Ramsar, after a hijab warning escalated into physical confrontation and police intervention.
An association of independent Iranian filmmakers has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to overhaul how it accepts films from countries under authoritarian rule, warning that the current system legitimizes state-controlled cinema bodies.
France has selected Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, as its submission for the Academy Awards in the international feature category, giving the exiled filmmaker a path to Hollywood that Tehran was unlikely to offer.
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi praised Iranian civil society on the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, saying victims' families have kept the pursuit of justice alive by turning grief into a force for change.
Iranian authorities have led a systematic campaign to silence the families of those killed and executed amid the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement—denying public mourning, arresting relatives and subjecting mourners to threats and intimidation.
The United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran, created after mass protests were crushed in 2022, has emerged as a rare instrument of accountability whose survival now rests on the political and financial will of the international community.
Countless young Iranians whose lives were snuffed out in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests became enduring symbols of defiance — human faces for a movement that challenged the very foundations of the Islamic Republic.