Iran is losing over $1.5 million every hour to internet restrictions, the Internet Business Association said in an open letter, as media linked to the Revolutionary Guards said the disruptions may signal an intensifying cyber war.
United Nations experts on Friday urged Iranian authorities to end a post-ceasefire crackdown marked by executions, mass arrests, and hate speech, warning that the country risks repeating past cycles of repression.
Iran has transferred French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris to undisclosed locations after they survived explosions during Israeli strikes on Tehran’s Evin prison on June 23, their family told Iran International.
Iran executed at least 21 people during its 12-day conflict with Israel last month including six men accused of spying for the Jewish state, according to a report by Oslo-based rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR).
An Iranian-Kurdish prisoner jailed in connection with the country’s 2022 nationwide protests has been sentenced to death on several charges including plotting to kill Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, his daughter told Iran International.
France on Thursday called for the immediate release of two citizens imprisoned in Iran since 2022, rejecting Tehran’s charges against them as baseless and warning of consequences if the pair are not freed.
Iranian state television aired an anthem, saying “we will uproot the Jews with power,” broadcast alongside images of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Republic’s armed forces.
Mourners in western city of Hamedan demanded justice Thursday at the funeral of two young men shot dead by Islamic Republic forces, chanting “Death to the oppressor” and turning the burial into a mass denunciation of state violence.
France said on Thursday that its decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran would depend on the release of two French citizens who have been imprisoned in Tehran for three years and now face new espionage charges.
Iran is intensifying a nationwide crackdown in the wake of its 12-day war with Israel, targeting ethnic and religious minority groups as well as foreign nationals, in what experts describe as a bid to reassert control, deflect blame, and suppress dissent.
French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, detained in Iran since three years ago, have been charged with spying for Israel, AFP reported citing diplomatic and family sources.
More than 1,300 activists, artists, and journalists from both Iran and Afghanistan have signed an open letter addressed to the Islamic Republic, calling for an immediate halt to the mass deportation of Afghans, which has intensified following the Israel war.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has killed or detained 52 people in southeastern Iran, describing the targets as Israel-linked terrorist elements.
On June 23, Israel launched several missiles at Tehran’s Evin Prison, describing the notorious site as a “tool of repression.” While some Iranians initially celebrated the strike, the human cost has been heartbreaking.
Iran’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty for cooperation with Israel, the US, or hostile groups, while also criminalizing unauthorized use of tools like Starlink to bypass internet restrictions.
Hedayatollah Farzadi, the head of Iran’s notorious Evin Prison fled the site moments before Israeli airstrikes, Fox News reported Saturday, citing leaked messages between Israeli intelligence and Farzadi's son.
Iranian authorities have summoned and interrogated at least 35 Jewish citizens in Tehran and Shiraz over their contact with relatives in Israel, the US-based human rights group HRANA said.
Throughout Israel's 12-day war on Iran, it launched strikes on key state organs tasked with domestic surveillance, protest suppression, detention and propaganda, targeting what it called “repression infrastructure.”
Iran’s ambassador to London has dismissed allegations that the Islamic Republic was involved in threats against UK-based Iranian journalists in his first appearance before the UK Parliament.
Iranian authorities said they have executed three men accused of smuggling equipment allegedly used in the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior figure in Iran's nuclear program who was assassinated in 2020.
The United Nations warned on Monday that Israeli and Iranian actions may violate international law, with civilians—especially in Iran—suffering mass casualties, displacement, and widespread destruction.
Three family members of an Iran International TV presenter were detained in Tehran by the Revolutionary Guards forces seeking to force her resignation as the channel continues its uncensored coverage of the Iran-Israel conflict amid an official internet blackout.