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An activist group says sixteen young people arrested in Urumieh in November, including several minors, have been tortured and threatened with rape to incriminate each other.

The United States has lauded the punitive measures by European countries against officials of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards.

The Biden administration Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) Cooperative Foundation and some senior Iranian officials.

Iran’s foreign minister says EU foreign policy chief’s hints that the body would not list IRGC as a terrorist outfit proves that the bloc is not seeking to take costly measures.

The United States and Israel Monday launched one of their biggest joint military war games, with thousands of forces, a dozen ships, and 142 aircraft, including nuclear-capable bombers.

Amid new sanctions by Western countries on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for human rights violations and other mischiefs, the multi-role organization is ramping up Syria’s air defense system, despite rampant poverty in Iran.

A group of people have held a gathering in Zaventem airport in Brussels on Monday to stop the expulsion of two Iranian refugees by the Belgian government.

Britain on Monday sanctioned more Iranian figures over human rights violations including the recent execution of British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari.

Iran’s government pumped $305 million into the currency market over two days, after the currency, rial, fell to a historic low of 450,000 against the US dollar.

With the arrest of two more journalists in Iran the number of media activists arrested since the beginning of nationwide protests reached 69.

Father of a detained Iranian protester says his daughter's lawyers have resigned because the Judiciary has refused to allow them “a face-to-face meeting with the defendant”.

The European Union cannot list Iran's IRGC as a terrorist entity until an EU court has determined that they are, the block's foreign policy chief said Monday.

Some politicians and pundits in Iran warn that the government is again pushing the wrong policies that led to the recent wave of protests and uprising in Iran.

Thirty female political detainees in Iran’s notorious Evin prison in Tehran, have signed an open letter demanding an end to the "unjust sentences for prisoners" and their execution.

Islamic Republic’s education minister says parts of the documents obtained during the US embassy takeover in 1979 will be included in school textbooks as of next year.

The Iranian parliament has approved the outlines of the budget bill for the next Iranian year – starting March 21 -- without considering its unrealistic assumptions.

Although two members of Tehran City Council said they will officially publish the list of unsafe buildings in the capital, the promise remained unfulfilled once again because it "would worry the people".

Thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to protest against the detention in Iran of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele.

Iran's exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, has urged pro-democracy forces to unite following arguments over endorsing him as trustee in transition to secular rule.

In the fifth month of protests against Iran’s clerical rulers, the Islamic Republic continues to arrest activists and journalists and issues heavy sentences for detainees.

Iran held an international congress called Women of Influence which apparently was a response to all-out pressures after ‘Women- Life- Freedom’ protests.