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Iran Protests

Two more January protesters executed in Iran

Two more January protesters executed in Iran

The Islamic Republic executed two more people detained in connection with the January 2026 protests, bringing to seven the number put to death in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, rights groups and the judiciary reported Monday.

Iran escalates Starlink threats over fears of losing internet control

Iran escalates Starlink threats over fears of losing internet control

Iranian authorities have stepped up warnings against Starlink as the cost-of-living crisis deepens and the prospect of renewed public protests grows, signaling mounting concern over citizens’ access to satellite internet.

Iran executes man arrested during January protests

Iran has executed Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, who was arrested during January’s protests in Shahrekord, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced Saturday.

'They shot on sight': Amnesty details 2022 protest killings in Kurdish areas

Iranian security forces shot civilians at close range, pursued fleeing protesters and prevented wounded people from receiving help during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Kurdish cities, according to Amnesty International’s investigation into the crackdown.

Iran denies teachers are quitting despite viral resignation videos

Iran denies teachers are quitting despite viral resignation videos

Iran’s Education Ministry dismissed reports of teacher resignations over working conditions and security pressure as a “rumor,” despite numerous videos of teachers announcing departures and a teachers’ council warning of a growing exodus.

Iran court upholds film star’s jail term over post mourning protest victims

Iran court upholds film star’s jail term over post mourning protest victims

An appeals court in Tehran has upheld a one-year prison sentence for renowned actress Elnaz Shakerdoost over an Instagram story mourning people killed during January’s protests, her lawyer said Friday.

Shot in leg, forced into hiding: Iran protester recounts January crackdown

Shot in leg, forced into hiding: Iran protester recounts January crackdown

Hamid Kouhsari was carrying a wounded woman on his back through the streets of Gorgan on January 8 when security forces shot him from behind. He spent the next eight months in hiding with his leg untreated, before leaving Iran.

Prisoners beaten, kept in windowless cells at Isfahan prison

Prisoners beaten, kept in windowless cells at Isfahan prison

Prisoners in a security ward at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan are beaten with cables and metal rods and held in overcrowded, windowless cells with poor ventilation, according to accounts provided to Iran International.

Iran death-row protester shot, tortured in custody

Iran death-row protester shot, tortured in custody

Iranian security forces shot death-row protester Alireza Sepahi four times during his arrest at home before subjecting him to weeks of torture in custody, according to a former cellmate who described his treatment.

The body as a battleground: Iran's resistance etched in ink and blood

The body as a battleground: Iran's resistance etched in ink and blood

After the Islamic Republic turned its guns on protesters during Iran’s nationwide January uprising, filling streets, hospitals and morgues with the wounded and the dead, it may have silenced the streets, but protest and dissent have found a new battleground: the body.

Families of slain protesters challenge Pezeshkian over UN remarks

Families of slain protesters challenge Pezeshkian over UN remarks

Relatives of protesters killed during Iran’s January crackdown challenged President Masoud Pezeshkian’s portrayal of the unrest as foreign-driven, saying their family members were unarmed and had no links to foreign governments, after his UN General Assembly address on Wednesday.

Iran upholds death sentence for Red Crescent worker after coerced confession

Iran upholds death sentence for Red Crescent worker after coerced confession

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Mozhdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a 27-year-old Red Crescent worker who said in a recording from Qazvin prison that interrogators beat her until her teeth broke and made her sign a confession, a source told Iran International.

Bareheaded mother, veiled daughter: Iran's schools keep a rule its streets have dropped

Bareheaded mother, veiled daughter: Iran's schools keep a rule its streets have dropped

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.

'Bully at home, victim abroad': Iranians on Pezeshkian's UN speech

'Bully at home, victim abroad': Iranians on Pezeshkian's UN speech

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 new school year begins in the shadow of protest and war

Iran’s new school year begins in the shadow of protest and war

Iranian children returned to classrooms Wednesday for an unusually somber start to the school year, the first since young people were killed in a government crackdown on January protests and in the war with the United States.

UN says Iran committed crimes against humanity, US committed war crimes

UN says Iran committed crimes against humanity, US committed war crimes

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.

How a Basij-linked cultural network helped identify Iran protesters

How a Basij-linked cultural network helped identify Iran protesters

A local network tied to state-backed cultural and media groups helped Iranian authorities identify protesters during the January crackdown, with footage passed to Revolutionary Guards intelligence, sources familiar with the operation told Iran International.

Iran's Guards stage show of force two days after protest anniversary

Iran's Guards stage show of force two days after protest anniversary

Iran's Revolutionary Guards paraded uniformed volunteers, Basij paramilitaries and children through Tehran on Friday in a state-organized show of force, two days after the anniversary of the 2022 protests.

Iranian protester, 21, dies after about 30 operations for gunshot wounds

Iranian protester, 21, dies after about 30 operations for gunshot wounds

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.

Woman, Life, Freedom and the Iran that cannot go back

Woman, Life, Freedom and the Iran that cannot go back

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.

Mahsa Amini and the century-long struggle of Iranian women

Mahsa Amini and the century-long struggle of Iranian women

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.

Mahsa’s dandelion: step by step through Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom

Mahsa’s dandelion: step by step through Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom

Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022 set off something that could not be put back in its box. Woman, Life, Freedom challenged the foundations of the Islamic Republic. This interactive project retraces the uprising, what was lost, but also what survived and what changed.