Iranian authorities have executed 55 people so far in 2023, a rights group said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country.

The lawyer of the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old girl whose death in mid-September while in police custody has led to months of nationwide unrest in Iran, says the primary investigator has ...

their mothers, their wives are forced and not given a choice to wear a hijab," said Jasmin Ramsey, the deputy director at the ...

One of Iran's top Shiite clerics, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem, has spoken out against the use of violence to force women into wearing the Islamic veil.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build “several” nuclear weapons if it chooses, the ...

At least 9 people have been killed in Iran amid protests following the death of a woman in morality police custody over her improper wearing of the mandatory face covering. Protests have spread ...

Iran has charged 16 people, including several teenagers, in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia for planning ...

Her death has sparked protests across the globe. Emrah Gurel AP Since the tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month, two other young women in Iran have been killed by Iran’s security ...

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Cooperative Foundation and ...

In a tense exchange, Iran's top diplomat has accused Paris of being intentionally confrontational while his French ...

The Biden administration on Monday announced new sanctions against Iran related to serious human rights abuses against ...

As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political ...