UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Mai Sato said the movement born from Mahsa “Jina” Amini’s death in Iran’s morality police custody remains alive four years on, despite another deadly crackdown and continued enforcement of mandatory hijab rules.
Sunni Baluch cleric Molavi Yousef Gorgij was killed by unknown assailants outside his home in Zahedan, Iranian state media reported on Monday, the second killing of a Sunni cleric in Iran in less than a week.
An Iranian court has handed down a death sentence to a man detained in connection with the January 2026 protests in the northeastern city of Shandiz, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Sunday.
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.
Maryam Azimi, who has written of being driven blindfolded to court in Mashhad in an intelligence vehicle, thinking those were the last minutes of her life, introduced the new iPhone's camera technology at Apple's global launch on Tuesday.
Iranian authorities are holding back from enforcing mandatory hijab as extensively as they would like because of “war conditions,” a senior official said Wednesday, even as pressure grows for tougher enforcement.
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.
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.
Iranian security forces deployed around fuel stations and on streets across the country as a gasoline price increase took effect, with people warning of further pressure on household budgets and rising prices for other goods and services.
Four senior Australian opposition politicians have backed a role for Reza Pahlavi in a political transition in Iran and urged closer engagement with the exiled prince, telling Iran International they have invited him to visit Australia.
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.
Employees of Iran’s oil industry held protests Monday at offshore platforms operated by Pars Oil and Gas Company and in the southern energy hub of Assaluyeh, demanding changes to pay, taxes and benefits as US economic pressure weighs on Iran’s oil exports and wider economy.
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.
Donald Trump’s renewed call for Iranians to rise up against the Islamic Republic has revived a question among some of those he is urging into the streets: after months of shifting US policy, can they trust Washington to stand by them if they do?
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.
Donald Trump’s question about when Iranians would rise against the Islamic Republic drew thousands of responses arguing that fear of renewed repression, doubts over US policy and insufficient outside support are holding back another uprising.
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.
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.
Anthropic said Iranian paramilitary and security units used Claude to surveil thousands of Iranians and identify opposition and diaspora accounts, while a separate MEK-linked operation used the AI to impersonate an activist and profile people inside Iran.