Executions soared to their highest number in almost a decade in 2023 with a sharp rise across the Middle East, Amnesty ...

A senior official with the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, appealed on Monday for urgent action to support diplomatic and ...

Iran must immediately revoke the death sentence imposed on anti-corruption activist Mahmoud Mehrabi and stop sentencing people to death for expressing their opinions, UN experts* said today. Mehrabi ...

Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said Monday he had left Iran after being sentenced to jail on national security ...

Footage of the incident was captured in what appears to be a busy public park in Iran - reportedly Borujerd - and shared to ...

Indeed, their activities have often led to sanctions being intensified, creating more wealth for the IRGC and more hunger and ...

Khamenei’s gloating is understandable; he’s surely right about the damage that the war is causing to the international ...

A Princeton- and Harvard-educated diplomat with a specialty in economics, Mr. Kennedy was halfway through a three-month assignment in Tehran when a Marine came charging down the embassy hallway, ...

There are hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Middle East and North Africa known as Mizrahi, and their history is being erased from the popular narrative about Israel.

Meanwhile, another dissident sentenced to death, and an asylum seeker’s suicide draws attention to pressures Iranians face in ...

Ultimately, the struggle against Iran’s aggression is a battle for the future of the region and the values of the free world. We must stand together in defense of freedom, democracy, and peace. The ...

One of the great ironies of the war in Gaza is that it has given a free pass for repression to one of the world’s ugliest regimes — Khamenei’s. Iran’s 85-year-old leader has, of course, been leading ...