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Iranian security has kept the body of an exiled journalist to his family after his coffin arrived in Iran, preventing his burial in his hometown of Shiraz.

A government-sponsored rally was held outside the British embassy in Tehran Thursday, trying to shift the blame over the current antigovernment protests on the UK’s “hostile policies.”

ISIS has taken responsibility for the Wednesday attack on a shrine in Shiraz but many Iranians are not convinced the regime had no part in it, saying it is a scenario for cracking down harder on protesters.

After weeks of intense protests in Iran, some factions within the regime seem to realize that a dialogue is needed with social groups to regain control of the country.

The White House has expressed concerns that Russia may be advising Tehran on best practices to suppress the ongoing protests in Iran.

Scheduled nationwide protests in Iran on the 40th day of Mahsa Amini’s death started before noon Wednesday with a large gathering at her grave in her hometown.

A group of Canadian and British lawmakers and politicians have urged their respective governments to take measures to stop Iran’s brutal crackdown on protesters.

Another part of a building in the southwestern city of Abadan, whose collapse in May killed dozens and led to weeks of protests across Iran, fell down on Wednesday.

The United States Wednesday slapped new sanctions on a raft of Iranians including prison governors, intelligence officials and suspects in Internet disruptions.

Germany is mulling over more restrictions for entry of individuals affiliated with the Islamic Republic beyond an already announced EU sanctions package over Tehran’s human rights violations.

Media in Iran report “a terrorist attack” in Shahcheragh shrine in Shiraz, capital of Fars Province that reportedly killed and injured several people Wednesday evening.

Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called Wednesday for Ukraine to present any evidence that Russia had used Iranian-made drones in the conflict.

Iran has announced a new set of sanctions against institutions and individuals in the European Union, alleging that they incite violence in the country.

Two New Zealanders who had been detained in Iran for the past few months have recently been allowed to leave the country.

By Emma Batha Below we reprint an interview with former hostage in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe published on October 26 on the ongoing protests in Iran. Her insights shed more light on the prevailing situation.

The United States is apparently pushing the United Nations to hold the Islamic Republic accountable for its violent crackdown on antigovernment protests.

As protests in Iran began in mid-September, the government blocked Instagram, the only international social media platform people were allowed to use.

Defiance of a rule that requires male and female students eat separately in canteens spreads in Iranian universities as civil disobedience to gender apartheid.

Unknown gunmen shot dead two officers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) in Zahedan, the provincial capital of the largely Sunni Muslim southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.

Anti-government protests in Iran continued Tuesday with university students at the forefront of expressing anger at gender segregation and government brutality.

Calls for rallies and strikes are pouring in for Wednesday, October 26, the 40th day since the death in custody of a young woman that sparked the protests, a culturally important tradition.