A US-based advocacy group on Thursday called on Washington and its European allies to confront Iran’s transnational repression by issuing a credible military threat, a week after they accused Tehran of plotting to kill individuals in Europe and the US.
Iran’s judiciary said on Wednesday it had executed a man convicted of membership in the Islamic State militant group and plotting attacks inside the country, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported.
Iran’s judiciary announced on Wednesday that Rouzbeh Vadi, a nuclear scientist and member of the Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute under the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, had been executed for allegedly spying for Israel.
The lawyer of man on death row over a high-profile protest case said on Monday that Iran’s Supreme Court has yet to respond to six defendants' appeal and the court has declined to meet with families or attorneys.
Iran International on Tuesday filed an urgent appeal with United Nations experts urging them to take action against Iran over serious risks to the lives and safety of their journalists worldwide and relatives inside Iran.
A US senator’s proposal to bar all Iranian students from American universities is due to pile another obstacle in the way of aspiring scholars already effectively blocked from entry by Trump administration travel restrictions.
Two young men have been sentenced to death for involvement in the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement, Norway-based rights group Hengaw said on Monday.
Two attacks on women in Iran caught on video, a very violent one on the street and another at a professional forum, have sparked outrage and highlight what critics call systemic gender-based repression.
The use of satellite internet system Starlink is growing in Iran amid mounting internet disruptions, as a new report criticizes officials for failing to deliver on pledges to improve connectivity.
The Islamic Republic is holding at least four Iranian American citizens including two individuals arrested after last month's US and Israeli airstrikes, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing rights groups and lawyers.
At least 730 people have been executed in Iranian prisons over the past seven months, including 102 in July alone, the US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights reported on Friday, citing its investigations.
Iran rejected a joint statement by the United States and thirteen allied governments that said Tehran has engaged in plots targeting individuals in Europe and North America, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Friday.
The leader of exiled opposition group the National Council of Resistance of Iran on Thursday vowed the armed ouster of its decades-old nemesis the Islamic Republic and the founding of a democratic, non-nuclear state in its place.
The United States and thirteen allied countries have accused Iran of plotting to kill, kidnap and intimidate individuals in Europe and North America, citing violations of sovereignty and links to international criminal networks.
A British couple held in solitary confinement in Iran since January on espionage charges was beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with execution, a source familiar with the matter told Iran International.
Political prisoners at Iran's Ghezel Hesar prison have launched a hunger strike in response to a violent raid by guards and their transfer to solitary confinement, a source told Iran International on Wednesday.
Iran is one of the most aggressive state actors targeting individuals in the United Kingdom through transnational repression, according to a new parliamentary report.
A former interior ministry official who criticized Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar after the October 7 attacks on Israel has been sentenced to six months in prison by a Tehran court, online outlet Jahan News reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s government withdrew a controversial internet bill amid mounting public pressure and accusations that it sought to criminalize dissent under the guise of combating false information.
Iranian social media users have reported facing disconnection of their phone SIM cards and receiving what appear to be official conditions for regaining access including posting praise of the ruling system on social media.
Sara Gohari, a 29-year-old Afghan sociology student living in Iran has been detained after traveling to the country’s eastern border to document the forced deportation of Afghan refugees, her lawyer and a rights group said.
A Belgian lawmaker of Iranian descent said the European country's police warned her of an Iranian plot to abduct her via Turkey after she backed labeling the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group.