Iran
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PublishedOctober 12, 2022
Protests over woman’s death by Iran’s morality police reach 19 cities
The protests over the death of Mahsa Amini have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran's theocracy since the country's 2009 Green Movement.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2022
2 killed as demonstrations around Iran enter 4th week
The protests erupted Sept. 17, after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who had died in the custody of Iran's feared morality police.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Let’s not be too smug about how Iran oppresses women
There is an understanding among men that women’s bodies are community property, ours to regulate, approve, criticize and use as we see fit.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2022
Iran summons UK envoy amid anti-government protests
The move comes amid violent unrest in Iran triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2022
Pro-government rallies held in Iran amid mass protests
The pro-government demonstrators chanted against America and Israel, according to state media.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2022
Commentary: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power
The signal from Tehran is that enemies of the regime can be attacked anywhere, even in the U.S., even decades after the regime first put a target on their backs.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2022
Iran denies involvement in attack on Salman Rushdie but blames him
In 1989, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding the author's death, and while Iran has not focused on Rushdie in recent years, the decree still stands.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2022
Iranian operative charged in plot to murder former U.S. official John Bolton
Prosecutors say the murder-for-hire scheme unfolded more than a year after the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force was killed in a targeted airstrike in Baghdad in January 2020.
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PublishedMay 27, 2022
Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers in Persian Gulf as tensions rise over U.S. sanctions
The seizures by Iran's Revolutionary Guard appear to be in retaliation aimed at the United States.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2022
Iran frees British citizens held for more than 5 years after debt paid
The breakthrough was reached as world leaders try to negotiate the return of both Iran and the U.S. to an international agreement designed to limit Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program.
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