The Latest Breaking News from Tehran

On Sept. 16, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in Tehran while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Her death set off a massive wave of demonstrations that have spread across the country.

Prize-winning Iranian human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, currently jailed in Tehran's Evin prison as protests grip the country, has not seen her 16-year-old twins for seven years. She has not met her husband Taghi Rahmani, himself a veteran of Iranian jails but now living in exile in Paris, for the…

The United States believes diplomacy is the best way to address Iran's nuclear program but sees no imminent revival of the 2015 nuclear deal for now because of Tehran's injection of extraneous issues, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

Iran's judiciary should take tough measures against protesters and anyone who thinks the country's rulers will fall is dreaming, a senior cleric said on Friday. The country has been gripped by demonstrations that erupted after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month. "The judiciary should deal…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a new call for foreign help strengthening Ukraine's air defenses against Russian air strikes during talks on Friday with three members of the US Congress. An air force spokesperson echoed Zelenskiy's appeal, saying the world must prevent Tehran providing Moscow with ballistic missiles in addition to…

Families struggle to contact relatives as opposition calls for movement to focus on plight of thousands in jail

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a new call for foreign help strengthening Ukraine's air defences against Russian air strikes during talks on Friday with three members of the U.S. Congress.

Moscow has resorted to the plot because “nuclear blackmail did not work”, the office of President Zelensky claims

Washington accuses Tehran of training Russian military on Iranian-made drones used in recent deadly attacks in Ukraine.