Iran Protests [2024]

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 24 (Reuters) - Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof said on Friday that his Cannes Film Festival competition entry, about a court official's family during his country's 2022 protests, was born out...

By Natasha Phillips Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh, a 16-year-old Kurdish boy arrested in November 2022 during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests in Iran, died on Jan. 4 of injuries sustained while being tortured in prison, the human...

By Natasha Phillips   Dr. Javaid Rehman, the United Nations’s former Rapporteur on the Islamic Republic of Iran, said he was postponing a planned visit to the US in September after facing threats from Iranian officials for...

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The United States issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran's "ongoing, violent repression of the Iranian people," including its "brutal crackdown on...

By Natasha Phillips Nasrin Shakarami, whose 16-year-old daughter Nika Shakarami died in September 2022 in mysterious circumstances during the nationwide anti-government protests in Iran, was reportedly arrested in Khorramabad city on Oct. 16 by the...

By Ahmad Rafat The escalation of the conflict in the Middle East following Israel’s recent missile and drone strikes on Lebanon and the deaths of Hezbollah military leaders, coupled with the detonation of communication devices...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, March 4 (Reuters) - Turnout in Iran's parliamentary election was around 41%, the country's interior minister said on Monday, the lowest participation since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution that swept the clerical rulers into power. https://kayhanlife.com/cartoon/cast-your-vote-i-wont-sting/ https://twitter.com/PahlaviReza/status/1763574265830359174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1763574265830359174%7Ctwgr%5E668fb4a7a2d67ecd9969692edeb58d456096b692%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkayhanlife.com%2Fnews%2Firan%2Firan-election-turnout-lowest-since-1979-revolution-early-reports-indicate%2F Friday's election was seen...

  By Kayhan Life Staff Sept. 16 marked the second anniversary of the Iranian government’s killing of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, an event that ignited widespread protests and evolved into a national movement in 2022. Over the...

DUBAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Iran carried out the death sentences of four people on Monday that it says were linked to an Israeli intelligence operation, after the Supreme Court rejected their appeal, Iranian state media reported. https://twitter.com/KayhanLife/status/1751857706544328861 https://twitter.com/ICHRI/status/1751400296951984260 The defendants...

By Natasha Phillips The number of Christians arrested in Iran for practicing their faith increased from 134 in 2022 to 162 in 2023, according to a new report published by Article 18, a London-based nonprofit...