As Mojtaba Khamenei assumes power in Iran, the clerical establishment is framing the death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as martyrdom for Islam and casting the new supreme leader as heir to ...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is now in its fifth day. Following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israel has ...

Stars Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes on playing the husband and wife at the centre of the extraordinary true story of a ...

The “brain trust” of opposition leaders in the country are in grave danger of regime “shoot-to-kill” reprisals and U.S. and Israeli bombs.

The office of Narges Mohammadi said it was “profoundly concerned” about the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who is jailed in ...

We are continuing our conversation with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International. On Sunday, tens of thousands of women around the world marked International Women’s Day by ...

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Iran is aiming for a war of attrition with the world’s biggest military superpower and another nuclear-armed state.

On Saturday morning, Swedish time, Iran came under attack by the United States and Israel. In Skellefteå, residents with roots in Iran are ...

Rights groups warned this week that prisoners in Iran – thousands of whom were detained during recent anti-government ...

I awoke on Saturday, February 28th, to the sounds of a terrifying explosion. But we knew what was happening. We’d all been ...

French citizen Louis Arnaud was detained in Iran in 2022 and spent nearly two years in the country’s notorious Evin prison.