The Iranian security forces pounced on the woman after she staged the public protest at the central clocktower square in the ...

A video shows an Iranian woman protesting strict hijab laws by stripping and climbing onto a police car in Mashhad. In ...

Iran's number of births is set to fall below 1 million a year for the first time, while its death rate continues to go up, Iran's Health Ministry warned. Alireza Raisi said that "mortality will soon ...

But Iranian women are rising, leading protests and risking ... for democracy or allow the most dangerous regime in the Middle East to develop nuclear weapons and entrench its power.

Iran's top judicial authority has pardoned two journalists who uncovered the death of a young woman in police custody that triggered nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary's news outlet Mizan said ...

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Azizi, 40, had her request for a retrial rejected by Iran’s Supreme Court, her lawyer said on Friday. She was ...

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said on Thursday. The United States and the European Union in January called on Iran to overturn her death sentence.

Tehran (AFP) – Iran may seem an unlikely setting for women's ice hockey, but a fledgling league has seen its young players confront the country's deeply conservative values and financial ...