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The British House of Commons is pushing to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization following a threat to the lives of two Iran International journalists.

Iran’s security forces have arrested at least 13 Iranian lawyers who are still in custody since the beginning of 2022 protests in September.

The outspoken Sunni Imam of Zahedan says women, ethnic and religious groups, and minorities have faced discrimination after the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

The newest manifestation of protests in Iran is flipping turbans of the clergy, something profoundly worrisome for Islamic Republic’s authorities as well as Muslim clerics abroad.

Reports say employees of Iran’s Oil Ministry in tens of oil rigs in the south have gone on strike to show anger at government mismanagement and unfair wages.

Iranian online business owners have called on authorities to remove restrictions on Internet that it almost fully shut down since antigovernment protests started in mid-September.

French President Emmanuel Macron says the threats posed by the Islamic Republic have gone beyond the Middle East and they must be confronted with.

After a threat by hardliner lawmakers last week asking that protesters be sentenced to death, Iran's Judiciary Tuesday signaled its intention to do just that.

An Iranian pharmacist says many of the pharmacies in Iran are going bankrupt due to economic problems.

Iranian hardliners in control of parliament and government mostly advocate a harsh response to protests but even among them there are some who call for dialogue.

Monday was the 52nd day of the protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, with protests and strikes reported from her hometown as well as other Kurdish cities.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Norwegian ambassador over remarks made by the country’s parliament speaker criticizing the Islamic Republic over ongoing protests.

Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, has pledged to improve relations with Persian Gulf Arab states beyond “defense cooperation” and stressed the threat from Iran.

The Islamic Republic has arrested many foreign tourists who took photographs from the ongoing protests in Iran.

As antigovernment protests continue in Iran, the government will face a multitude of additional economic problems and energy crisis in the coming months.

Islamic Republic officials have issued threatening messages to members of its beach football team as well as the United Arab Emirates that recently hosted the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup.

Iran’s intelligence ministry has announced the arrest of 26 people including foreigners on charges related to an attack on a Shia shrine October 26 that killed 15 people.

The Islamic Republic’s authorities have destroyed large amounts of imported medical products without undergoing legal procedures despite dire shortages across Iran.

Nearly 600 university professors and researchers in Iran have called for the unconditional release of students arrested during current antigovernment protests.

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The well-known conservative editor of a government newspaper in Iran has asked the government why it did not ban Russia from using Iranian drones against Ukraine.