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Amid rotting corpses and unexploded shells, a man sells chickpea soup on the streets of Mosul, Iraq.
Iranian security officers have arrested two women who protested against the compulsory hijab in Tehran by removing their head scarves in public and waving them while standing on utility boxes.
Five security officers have been killed and 300 people arrested amid clashes between law enforcement authorities and Sufi Muslim protesters in Tehran, police say.
An Iranian teachers' organization has blamed the country's recent outbreak of protests on inflation, poverty, unemployment, and "mismanagement by state officials."
Iran's foreign minister has warned other countries not to foment insecurity in his country.
Germany’s top diplomat says the European Union will invite Iran's foreign minister for talks about the widespread antigovernment protests that have rocked the country since December 28.
The U.S. call for support for Iranian antigovernment protesters drew a mixed reaction at the United Nations, with even some U.S. allies questioning whether an international response was justified.
Antigovernment protests entered a second week across Iran amid a war of words between the United States and Tehran, which accuses the White House of meddling in its domestic affairs.
At least two protesters were killed in antigovernment street protests in Iran, as demonstrations originally prompted by anger over rising prices intensified and spread to the capital, Tehran, prompting government warnings of an “iron fist” response.
Iranian police warned anti-government protesters against staging new rallies after arresting dozens of demonstrators in Tehran and the western city Kermanshah, even as the United States called for a "peaceful transition" of government in Iran.
The husband of jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says there have been "positive steps" toward her release following British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's visit to Tehran last week.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on the authorities to provide more aid for the survivors of a devastating earthquake that hit the country’s west more than a week ago.
Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in clashes with militants near the Turkish frontier.
Two top Iranian military commanders say that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has restricted the range of ballistic missiles manufactured in the country to 2,000 kilometers.
The family of an Iranian-British woman serving a five-year prison sentence in Tehran for allegedly plotting to topple Iran's clerical establishment says a new case has been opened against her.
A Zoroastrian city councilor in Iran has been suspended from his position, highlighting an emerging battle over the rights of the country's religious minorities to run for office.
Iran's judiciary has confirmed that a dual-national member of the Iranian team that negotiated a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of espionage.
Amnesty International has launched a campaign to urge Iranian authorities to "stop the imminent destruction" of a mass grave in the southern city of Ahvaz, the capital of the oil-rich Khuzestan Province.
If you’re a woman and are infertile or have “too much facial hair” you can’t become a teacher in Iran, according to a new list of conditions and illnesses issued by the Iranian Education Ministry that disqualifies applicants from being hired as teachers.
Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karrubi, who has been under house arrest for more than six years, has ended a hunger strike, his son says.
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