Deadly anti-government protests continue to rock Iran in the midst of the country’s spiraling economic crisis. Thousands of civilians are believed to have been shot dead by government forces in the ...

Craig and Lindsay Foreman were passing through Iran on the way to Australia last January when they were detained ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A huge fire blazed Saturday at a notorious prison where political prisoners and anti-government activists are kept in the Iranian capital. Online videos and local media reported ...

As the protests unfolded, the Iranian director was in Los Angeles to promote his latest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” a ...

Nasrin Roshan calls on Donald Trump to follow through on promises to protesters ...

LONDON -- Dozens of Iranian women political prisoners went on a hunger strike Thursday in protest of the execution of Iranian protester Mohammad Ghobadlou. The announcement of the hunger strike was ...

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(JTA) — A Jewish Iranian-American man has been sentenced to prison in Iran for traveling to Israel 13 years ago for his son’s bar mitzvah, his family members have disclosed. Kamran Hekmati, 70, of ...

Today, Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani was released from jail after spending over a year in Tehran's Evin Prison for her satirical drawing of Iran's policymakers as animals. Atena Farghadani was ...