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A demonstrator wears a sticker over her mouth with the words "no execution" next to the portraits of alleged victims of crackdowns, during a silent march denouncing the deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Islamic Republic, in Paris on January 31, 2026. (Sébastien DUPUY / AFP)
May 3, 2026, 3:38 pm
Iran hangs man accused of killing security forces volunteer during 2022 protests
Judiciary says Mehrab Abdollahzadeh confessed to crimes and was executed for ‘corruption on earth’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Starlink antenna for aircraft on display at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 in Dubai on November 20, 2025. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
January 10, 2026, 8:53 pm
As Iranian regime shuts down internet, even Starlink seemingly being jammed
Receivers for satellite service face connectivity challenges, with an expert reporting that the Islamic Republic seems to be ‘doing something beyond GPS jamming’
By AP
Shopkeepers and traders protest in the street against the economic conditions and Iran's embattled currency in Tehran on December 29, 2025. (FARS NEWS AGENCY / AFP)
January 6, 2026, 11:27 am
At least 35 people, including 4 children, said killed in growing Iran protests
Iranian protesters clash with security forces during sit-in at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar; group says over 1,200 detained as mass rallies spread to hundreds of locations around country
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Storekeepers and traders walk over a bridge during a protest against the economic conditions and Iran's embattled currency in Tehran on December 29, 2025. (FARS NEWS AGENCY / AFP)
December 31, 2025, 1:11 pm
Iran’s chief prosecutor pledges ‘decisive’ response if protests destabilize country
Legal official says mass demonstrations part of ‘understandable realities’ but must not be ‘tool of insecurity’; new central bank governor appointed after record currency fall
By Agencies
Women cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 28, 2025, 11:11 am
With Iran’s regime wary of widespread dissent, Tehran women let their hair down
On first visit to Iran’s capital since 2022 anti-hijab protests, AP reporter sees women openly flout headscarf laws; discontent with theocracy, fears of another war also widespread
By Jon Gambrell
Leaked footage from mid-2024 shows Fatemeh Shamkhani in a Western-style, low-cut strapless wedding dress, left, being led down the aisle by her father Ali Shamkhani, a close adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Screen capture: Iran International, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 28, 2025, 10:19 am
Leaked wedding video lays bare luxury that highlights hypocrisy of Iran’s political elites
Islamic Republic riled by leaked footage of Ali Shamkhani, who oversaw harsh repression of 2022 protests, leading his daughter Fatemeh down aisle at lavish, Western-style wedding
By Farhang Morady
A screengrab of a video showing unveiled women attending an art show at Tehran Design Week, released November 14, 2025. (YouTube)
November 16, 2025, 7:21 pm
‘Vulgar’ video of unveiled women attending art show sparks controversy in Iran
Tehran University pulls out of citywide design week events after video circulates; judiciary said planning crackdowns as more women forgo veil in public
By AFP
Women watch as a man plays trombone as people listen at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 15, 2025, 2:00 pm
As Iranian women defy mandatory hijab law, judiciary calls for tougher measures
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei orders prosecutors and security agencies to target ‘organized and foreign’ efforts behind rising ‘social anomalies’
By AFP
A worker hangs a banner showing portraits of the late Iranian armed forces commanders, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, top, Gen. Gholamali Rashid, center, and Gen. Hossein Salami who were killed in Israeli strikes in June at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 25, 2025, 8:21 pm
Female prisoner dies in Iranian jail; rights groups blame authorities’ neglect
Somayeh Rashidi, 42, dies six months after being jailed for writing anti-regime slogans; Iran says death due to earlier illness but NGOs say coma caused by denial of medical care
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this frame grab, from video taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranian police arrive to disperse a protest to mark 40 days since the death in morality police custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2022. (AP Photo)
September 6, 2025, 11:21 am
Iran executes man over attack on security forces during 2022 Mahsa Amini protests
Mehran Bahramian found to have been part of group that killed officer and wounded others in Isfahan amid wave of dissent after 22-year-old woman’s death in morality police custody
By AFP
Iranian protesters hold their country's flags and posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at an anti-US and anti-Israeli rally at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in downtown Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
June 26, 2025, 3:24 pm
A battered Iran faces an uncertain future after its bruising war with Israel
Supreme Leader Khamenei must regroup and reassert control while overseeing a failing economy and deciding what direction to take with the nuclear program
By Jon Gambrell and Lee Keath
Iranian lawyer and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi poses for a photograph during the presentation of the exhibition "Dessins pour la liberte" (Cartoons for peace), marking the international press freedom day on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Geneva on May 3, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
June 25, 2025, 11:25 pm
Tehran’s ‘paper tiger’ regime will fall, says exiled Iranian Nobel peace laureate
‘I predict the people will succeed this time around and this regime will be gone,’ says Shirin Ebadi, arguing that after war with Israel, Iranians see how weak their leadership is
By Bahareh Khodabandeh and William James
Screen capture from video of an interruption by hackers to Iran's state television network broadcast showing past protest by women against the regime, June 18, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 19, 2025, 1:23 am
Iran blames Israel for hacking state TV broadcast with calls for uprising
Transmission interrupted with footage from 2022 women’s protests against the regime; state broadcaster later warns viewers that ‘Zionist enemy’ is disrupting satellite service
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this photo taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2022. (AP)
June 11, 2025, 9:26 pm
Iran executes man over 2022 protest killings; activists say he was framed
Dissidents and human rights groups say Abbas Kourkouri was tortured into confessing to killing seven people who were likely shot by security forces
By AP
Director Jafar Panahi, winner of the Palme d'Or for the film 'It Was Just an Accident', poses for photographers at the awards ceremony photo call at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 24, 2025. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)
May 25, 2025, 8:08 am
Dissident Iranian filmmaker urges working for ‘freedom’ as he takes Cannes top prize
Jafar Panahi, who won best movie with drama examining dilemma faced by those given opportunity to take revenge on their oppressors, says he hopes for an end to authoritarian rule
By Agencies
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