The two were convicted of membership of the People's Mujahedin opposition group, which is outlawed by the Islamic republic.

TEHRAN - Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Moqiseh, born in 1956 in Sabzevar, Razavi Khorasan, was a prominent Iranian cleric and judge.

Nightly News anchor Lester Holt pressed Iran’s leader in Tehran about whether he was willing to promise there would be no attempt on the life of the president-elect. IE 11 is not supported.

Late last week, both Switzerland and France summoned Iranian officials to protest their nationals in prison, a day after Iran reported the "suicide" of a Swiss national in jail. A few days before ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland has demanded more information from authorities in Iran after a Swiss citizen died in prison in the Islamic Republic. A Swiss national who was arrested in Iran and accused ...

A Swiss national who was arrested and accused of spying in Iran died by suicide in prison on Thursday, according to Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s judiciary. “All evidence ...

TEHRAN, Iran — A Swiss national detained in Iran on espionage charges killed himself Thursday at a prison in rural Semnan province, state media reported. The report by the Iranian judiciary's ...

Iran faces a tough year of confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding an exceptionally weak hand after 2024 left it with an acute economic crisis at home and setbacks in ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. One of the many complex foreign policy problems that Donald Trump will inherit ...

Sala, who travelled to Iran with a journalist visa, is being held in the country's infamous Evin Prison. The 29-year-old reporter, known for her popular podcast and television appearances ...