After Raisi funeral, Iran’s focus turns to vote for successor TEHRAN: After Iran mourned president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a recent helicopter crash, the nation’s focus turns... Published 28 May, 2024 11:30am
World Khamenei rallies Iranians to vote Friday in show to ‘enemies’ TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader urged voters to come out in droves on Friday and show the foes of the Islamic... Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am
World EU awards Mahsa Amini rights prize as Iran blocks family STRASBOURG (France): The European Parliament on Tuesday presented a top EU rights prize to Mahsa Amini, whose death... Published 13 Dec, 2023 05:33am
World Iran enforcing ‘intensified’ hijab crackdown: Amnesty PARIS: Iranian authorities have in the last months launched an intensified crackdown against women deemed to have... Published 26 Jul, 2023 11:33am
World Iran executes 354 people in first half of 2023: rights group PARIS: Iran has hanged at least 354 people in the first six months of 2023, a rights group said Monday, adding that... Published 03 Jul, 2023 02:47pm
World Iran executes three men linked to Amini protests: judiciary TEHRAN: Iranian authorities on Friday executed three men convicted of violence against the Islamic republic’s... Published 19 May, 2023 11:41am
World At least 537 killed in Iran protest crackdown: rights group PARIS: Iranian security forces have killed at least 537 people in a crackdown on protests that erupted in September,... Published 04 Apr, 2023 06:32pm
World New cases of poisoning in different Iran regions: media TEHRAN: More cases of mysterious poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls were reported Sunday in several provinces, local... Published 05 Mar, 2023 05:22pm
World Iran prosecutes woman for 'disrespecting' headscarf TEHRAN: Iran's judiciary is prosecuting a woman for "disrespecting" the Islamic headscarf after she threw hers to... Published 18 Feb, 2023 10:26pm
World ‘No infighting’: Iran opposition seeks elusive unity to unseat regime PARIS: Five months since protests broke out in Iran, a divided opposition in and outside of the country is seeking... Published 16 Feb, 2023 12:00pm
Editorials Is Iran ripe for change? EDITORIAL: On the occasion of 44th anniversary of anti-Shah revolution (1979 Islamic revolution) Iran seems to have... Published 12 Feb, 2023 03:56am
World Iran ex-president, former PM call for political change TEHRAN: Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami and former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi have both called for... Published 06 Feb, 2023 06:20am
World Iran says it repelled drone attack on military site TEHRAN: Iran repelled a drone attack on a military site in central Isfahan province, the defence ministry said early... Published 29 Jan, 2023 11:06am
World Iran vows response to new EU, UK sanctions over protests TEHRAN: Iran vowed Tuesday it will respond to new sanctions imposed by the European Union and Britain over its... Published 24 Jan, 2023 01:22pm
World Despite crackdown, Iran protesters still challenging regime PARIS: Despite a slackening of street activity in the face of a brutal crackdown, Iranian protesters are still... Published 22 Jan, 2023 12:07pm
World Iran executes two more men in connection with protests PARIS: Iran drew international condemnation on Saturday as it executed two men for killing a paramilitary force... Published 08 Jan, 2023 03:48am
World Iran replaces police chief amid protests TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Saturday a new police chief, nearly four months... Published 07 Jan, 2023 05:03pm
World Iran upholds two death sentences, issues another over protests TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday upheld two death sentences for the killing of a paramilitary during nationwide protests, the... Published 04 Jan, 2023 07:15am
World Iran’s Raisi vows ‘no mercy’ for ‘hostile’ protest movement TEHRAN: President Ebrahim Raisi said Tuesday Iran would show “no mercy” towards “hostile” opponents of the Islamic... Published 27 Dec, 2022 05:20pm
World Pakistani law professor among those named by UN to probe Iran protests crackdown GENEVA: The United Nations on Tuesday named three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran’s violent crackdown... Published 21 Dec, 2022 05:03pm
World Iran blames US after being removed from UN rights body TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday accused the United States of orchestrating its removal from a UN women’s rights body over... Published 16 Dec, 2022 05:58am
World Khatami voices support for protests TEHRAN: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has voiced support for the protest movement sparked by Mahsa... Published 08 Dec, 2022 05:58am
World Iran ex-president Khatami voices support for protests TEHRAN: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has voiced support for the protest movement sparked by Mahsa... Published 07 Dec, 2022 05:32pm
World Iran protests: regime challenged by push for change PARIS: Almost three months of protests in Iran have left the clerical regime facing an existential challenge by... Published 06 Dec, 2022 11:26am
Editorials Abolition of morality police in Iran EDITORIAL: As anti-hijab protests in Iran refuse to relent and grow in severity the authorities have reportedly... Published 06 Dec, 2022 05:58am
World Iran Guards general says more than 300 dead in Amini unrest TEHRAN: Iran has for the first time reported that more than 300 people have died in over two months of protests... Published 29 Nov, 2022 06:30pm
World Iran says it has proof that Western states were involved in protests DUBAI: Iran has proof that Western nations were involved in protests that have swept the country, the foreign... Updated 28 Nov, 2022 03:01pm
World Iran blasts ‘useless’ UN rights probe into unrest TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council decision to probe the Islamic... Published 25 Nov, 2022 06:45pm
World UN rights chief’s offer to visit Iran met with silence GENEVA: New UN human rights chief Volker Turk revealed Thursday he had offered to visit Iran during Tehran’s deadly... Published 24 Nov, 2022 07:07pm
World UN denounces ‘hardening’ of Iranian response to protests GENEVA: The United Nations on Tuesday denounced Iran’s increasingly harsh and deadly crackdown on mass protests... Published 23 Nov, 2022 05:55am
