For the third time in 13 years, mass protests directed against the ruling theocrats have erupted across the country. The unrest is an opportunity for the U.S. president to address the Iranian ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One of the leaders of Iran's 2009 Green Movement protests will be released from house arrest in the coming weeks, his son told state media Monday. However ...

Her death unleashed decades of pent-up anger over Iran’s clerical rule and sparked the country’s biggest protests in years. Human rights activist Nazanin… News Wrap: Winter storms bearing ...

(Reuters) - The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Tehran on Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported, a day after the Netherlands called in Iran's envoy over ...

Karroubi, who also was one of the leaders of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests, is in the process of being released from house arrest. “The end of my house arrest has coincided with a super ...

Iran hostage crisis survivor Barry Rosen knows the importance of outlets like VOA. He saw first-hand how they encourage people in autocratic countries to dream of freedom.

Karroubi, who also was one of the leaders of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests, is in the process of being released from house arrest. So far, Iran has maintained it is willing to engage in ...

Contemporary artists in Iran played a "pivotal role" in helping turn a "nationwide protest into a cultural uprising that resonated across the globe", wrote AFI's Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston ...

Back in July 2021, severe water shortages in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan triggered protests that quickly spread to the entire nation. According to human rights organizations ...

Iran set to release Mehdi Karroubi, one of the prominent figures behind the 2009 Green Movement protests, who has been under house arrest since 2011.