Iran’s Security Forces Clash With Anti-government Protesters in Several Provinces
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in several provinces on Thursday, according to posts on social media, as protests triggered by rising...
UK Sanctions Iran Officials Over Forced Hijab Law
By Natasha Phillips
The UK government sanctioned five men in Iran on Dec. 8 for their roles in the implementation of the Islamic Republic’s forced hijab law. It also sanctioned the men for grave human...
Iranian Women Speak to Kayhan Life of Their Harassment By Morality Police
By Firouzeh Nordstrom
On Sept. 16, Masha (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old ethnic Kurd, died in hospital because of injuries she had reportedly suffered while in the custody of morality police (guidance patrol) in Tehran three...
U.S. Denounces Iran for Public Execution
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department denounced Iran on Monday for hanging a man in public, saying the Islamic Republic's use of harsh sentencing and public execution is meant to intimidate people protesting against the...
Iranian Security Body Says 200 People Lost Lives in Recent Protests
DUBAI, Dec 3 (Reuters) - President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday hailed Iran's Islamic Republic as a guarantor of rights and freedoms, defending the ruling system amid a crackdown on anti-government protests that the United Nations says has...
Soccer-Former FIFA Head Blatter Says Iran Should Be Barred From World Cup
ZURICH, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic Republic sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality...
Three Ways These Latest Iran Demonstrations Are Different to Past Protests
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
Once again, Iran is in the midst of political upheaval and civil unrest. The latest protests, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police, follow several other...
Iran’s Rouhani Claims Victory over Unrest
DUBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that street unrest had been put down in a victory over foreign enemies, after a wave of violent demonstrations swept the country following...
Iran Warns Regional States of Consequences If They Stoked Unrest
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri on Saturday warned regional countries of consequences if it is proven that they meddled to stoke recent unrest in Iran.
"Some countries in the region...
Iran Pardons 90,000 People Arrested During Nationwide Protests
By Kayhan Life Staff
Mohammad Mosaddegh Kahnamoui, the first deputy to Iran’s Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, said on June 18 that 90,000 people arrested since the start of the nationwide protests in September 2022 had...
