Iran Says Calm Has Been Restored After Fuel Price Hike Unrest
DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Protests in Iran triggered by petrol price hikes last week have subsided, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after the elite Revolutionary Guards warned of "decisive" action if anti-government...
Iranians Protest Nationwide, Mark ‘Bloody Friday’
DUBAI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians protested in the restive southeast on Friday to mark a Sept. 30 crackdown by security forces known as "Bloody Friday" as the country's clerical rulers battled persistent...
Iranian Terror Suspect in UK Has ‘Close Links to Regime,’ Reports Say
By Natasha Phillips
One of the seven Iranian men arrested in the UK and believed to be part of terrorism plots to target specific premises across England has “close links” to Iran’s clerical regime, according...
Iran’s Regime Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison
By Bart H. Meijer
AMSTERDAM, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in Iran for a "fabricated series of crimes", Belgium's Justice Minister said on Wednesday, adding the government...
Iran Guards Detain Dual National for ‘Organising Unrest and Sabotage’
DUBAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organise unrest and sabotage", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid heightened security to thwart planned protests a year...
Iranian Teenager Armita Geravand Dies After Alleged Confrontation
Oct 28 (Reuters) - Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl, has died following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country's hijab law, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
"Unfortunately, she went into a coma...
EU Sanctions to Target Iran Guards ‘Inner Circle’, Germany Says
By Sabine Siebold
BRUSSELS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Fresh European Union sanctions will target the "inner circle of power" of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Germany said on Monday as the bloc convened to respond to what it has condemned...
Iran Is Paying ‘Political and Diplomatic Price for Its Brutality,’ UK Official
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s government knows “the political and diplomatic price they are paying for their brutality ,” the UK Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell has said.
Mitchell made the remarks during a June 7 debate at the...
Jailed Iranian Activist Alleges Rampant Abuse at Bushehr Central Prison
By Kayhan Life Staff
Inmates at the Bushehr Central Prison’s women’s cellblock in the southern province of Bushehr live under “inhumane conditions” and are “violently tortured,” Sepideh Gholian, a civil rights activist, has said in...
