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Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in protest since the death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was apprehended in Tehran and taken to a "re-education center", apparently for not wearing her hijab properly. Since…

Iranian officials have claimed she died after suffering a "heart attack" and falling into a coma, but her family have said she had no pre-existing heart condition, according to Emtedad news, an Iranian pro-reform media outlet. Public…

Amini's story has pulled Iran's apparatus of discipline back into the limelight, raising the question of accountability and impunity enjoyed by the country's clerical elite. "It would be hard to find an average Iranian woman or an average…

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norwegian-registered organization monitoring rights violations in Iran, said five people were fatally shot during demonstrations in Iran's Kurdish region on Monday. It said 75 others were injured in…

Amini, 22, who was stopped and detained by Iran's morality police in Tehran on Tuesday, died after falling into a coma on Friday. CCTV footage released by Iran's state media appeared to show her collapsing at a "re-education" center where…

One picture showed Ayatollah Khamenei wearing a mask and greeting the crowd attending the ceremony, which marked the 40th day after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein. Other pictures showed him seated on a chair to the right side of the room,…

A US State Department spokesperson said the United States had received Iran's response to the EU bid to revive the 2015 deal and would formulate its own response."We are studying it and will respond through the EU, but unfortunately it is…

The pills were confiscated at a warehouse after arriving through the dry port of the capital Riyadh, the Saudi Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Wednesday.Eight people were arrested on suspicion of smuggling the drugs, according…

Muqtada al-Sadr, a fiery cleric who counts both Iran and the United States as his adversaries, withdrew from politics on Monday out of frustration at his opponents' maneuvers against him. The move prompted his loyalists to rampage through…

Syrian refugees have become central in the political debate in Turkey ahead of elections next year. Calls to repatriate them to war-torn Syria used to be the cause of fringe, right-wing parties, but now they've become mainstream as the…