The police chief in Mahshahr, a city in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province, says a new restaurant has been shut down because "a woman was singing at the opening ceremony".
Sunni clerics criticizing the Islamic Republic's heavy-handed response to protests were the latest to be placed in the crosshairs of the Iranian authorities, who are scrambling to crush the months-long unrest.
On 27 October 2022, K2 Integrity and the Atlantic Council hosted a webinar on the current state of the demonstrations in Iran and the imposed sanctions' impact on the Iranian regime
A strong earthquake rocked the northwestern Iranian city of Khoy on January 28, killing at least three people, injuring more than 1,000 and forcing hundreds to seek shelter from freezing winter conditions.
Iran and Russia have connected their interbank communication and transfer systems to help boost trade and financial transactions, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, as both Tehran and Moscow are chafing
Iran’s impoverished province of Baluchistan has been disproportionately hit by protests since September. It has paid an exorbitant price in terms of deaths, casualties, and arrests in the crackdown against the
An Iranian court has sentenced two bloggers to ten and a half years in prison each for dancing in the streets in support of the nationwide protests which have swept the country since September. The couple – ...
The Iranian parliament plans to add an article to the Islamic Penal Code that would criminalize "expressing opinions on social networks," state media reported, in an attempt to further limit freedom of speech
The Islamic Republic has embarked on a journey to raise capital by selling public properties, a move that has people and pundits concerned about its repercussions. The country’s parliament is trying to fiddle
An Iranian prosecutor has accused a member of the country’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority of having established “extensive” contacts with Persian-language media outlets outside Iran and spreading
The most important consequence of the protests in Iran for the Iranian diaspora, a diaspora that has been largely unorganized and passive until now, is the opening of a new arena for it in socio-political life
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