Iran authorities say arrested members of Bahai minority
- 18-Jan-2026
PARIS: Iranian authorities on Saturday said they had arrested members of the Bahai minority they accused of having been active in what they call “riots”, the Tasnim news agency reported, after the wave of protests that gripped the country. The Bahais, Iran’s biggest non-Muslim religious minority, regularly experience persecution and the Islamic republic has accused […]
US advises citizens in Iran to exit country without delay
- 13-Jan-2026
WASHINGTON: The United States virtual embassy for Iran has advised the American citizens in Iran to exit the country without delay as nationwide unrest continues to escalate. “Leave Iran now,” the embassy said in a security alert, urging its nationals to plan for departing Iran without assistance from the US government. “If you cannot leave, […]
Iran’s Khamenei says protesters’ economic demands ‘fair’
- 03-Jan-2026
TEHRAN: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday acknowledged the economic demands of Iranian protesters, while warning against what he described as rioting. “The president and high-ranking officials are working to resolve” the economic difficulties in the sanctions-battered country, Khamenei said in a speech marking a Shiite holiday. “The shopkeepers have protested against this situation […]
Member of Iranian security forces killed during protests: state media
- 01-Jan-2026
TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s security forces was killed during protests that erupted last week, state television reported on Thursday citing a regional official. “A 21-year-old member of the Basij from the city of Kouhdasht was killed last night (Wednesday) by rioters while defending public order,” the channel said, citing Said Pourali, the deputy governor […]
Clampdown and grief as Iranians remember Mahsa Amini
- 16-Sep-2023
PARIS: Iranians at home and abroad marked the first anniversary Saturday of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with activists speaking of a renewed crackdown to prevent any resurgence of the protests which rocked the country last year. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died a few days after her arrest by religious police […]
19 die in Zahedan amid police station standoff in Iran protests
- 01-Oct-2022
TEHRAN: At least 19 people were reported killed on Friday in Zahedan, the provincial capital of the Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province, according to media reports. A wave of protests unleased in Iran after Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in police custody. Those killed also included an officer of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) though […]
Mahsa Amini died of ‘blow to the head’: family in Iraq
- 28-Sep-2022
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she encountered morality police and died after a “violent blow to the head”, her cousin living in Iraq said. “Jhina’s death has opened the doors of popular anger,” said Erfan Salih Mortezaee, 34, using Amini’s Kurdish first name and referring to […]
Iranians protest for tenth night, defying judiciary warning
- 26-Sep-2022
Iranians took to the streets for a tenth consecutive night Sunday, in defiance of a warning from the judiciary, to protest the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody. At least 41 people have died since the unrest began, mostly protesters but including members of the Islamic republic’s security forces, according […]
Alarm grows over deadly Iran crackdown on protests
- 21-Sep-2022
International alarm mounted on Tuesday over a deadly crackdown in Iran against protests that erupted after death of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest by Tehran’s morality police. Amini, 22, died on Friday three days after she was urgently hospitalised following her arrest by police responsible for enforcing Iran’s strict dress code for […]