Contrary to claims of weakness, Iran remains a formidable actor with robust defense capabilities and significant geopolitical ...

Iran is ignoring these demands ... The Iranian people are getting increasingly restless, and, more ominously, surly. The government has relied on street level gangs of young Islamic conservatives to ...

Iran's hanging of protesters — and display of their lifeless bodies suspended from cranes — seems to have instilled enough fear to keep people off the streets after months of anti-government ...

Iran's morality police are to resume controversial street patrols to enforce the dress code requiring women to cover their hair and wear loose clothing. It comes 10 months after mass protests ...

freedom" at a protest on a street. Iran's Education Minister, Yousef Nouri, on Wednesday accused the "enemy" of targeting schools and universities. Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri ...

Iranian authorities have been imposing harsh punishments on women taking off the hijab ...

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