Several teachers in Iran's Kordestan province have been dismissed on what authorities described as security-related charges and removal of compulsory hijab, a media outlet affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Saturday.
A survey conducted by a Netherlands-based institute found that the majority of Iranians would vote for either a regime change or a structural transition away from the Islamic Republic, highlighting growing demands for political change across Iran.
Iran’s former intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi warned that domestic injustices and political exclusion risk eroding national cohesion, saying Iranians should not be treated as if unity is only demanded in wartime.
Court cases against Iranian teachers detained in protests remain unresolved and the administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian has not altered its approach toward labor demands, a teachers’ union spokesman told the reformist daily Sharq.
An Iranian police officer was killed and another wounded on Friday night when gunmen from a Sunni militant group opened fire on a military vehicle in the southeastern city of Iranshahr, local police said.
Iranian authorities have threatened dozens of journalists at London-based broadcaster Iran International, along with hundreds of their relatives, in a bid to force them to resign, Forbes reported.
When Iran's armed forces chief of staff declared this week that all Iranians are together in one battle trench, the rallying cry rang hollow with many Iranians bewildered by a punishing war last month and worsening standards of living.
The leader of exiled opposition group the National Council of Resistance of Iran on Thursday vowed the armed ouster of its decades-old nemesis the Islamic Republic and the founding of a democratic, non-nuclear state in its place.
Political prisoners at Iran's Ghezel Hesar prison have launched a hunger strike in response to a violent raid by guards and their transfer to solitary confinement, a source told Iran International on Wednesday.
The Islamic Republic's downfall would lead to sustainable peace and prosperity in the Middle East, Iranian exiled prince Reza Pahlavi said on Saturday, calling for unity among dissidents during a major opposition gathering in Munich.
Israel was preparing a final wave of attacks aimed at toppling Iran’s ruling system when US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire, The Washington Post reported, citing Israeli and American officials involved in the operation.
Tehran has begun installing loudspeakers in major city squares to help inform the public during emergencies when authorities cut internet access, a city council member said on Saturday.
Nine people, including three assailants, were killed and 20 others wounded in an armed attack on a courthouse in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
The defense and foreign ministers of Australia and Britain hit out on Friday at what they called Iran's rising use of the death penalty and ongoing repression of women, girls and human rights defenders.
Government forces fired tear gas at protesters in Sabzevar, northeast Iran, on Tuesday night as demonstrations over prolonged blackouts and water shortages entered a second consecutive day.
Iran’s clerical leadership will fall from within not through any foreign military intervention, Israel’s prime minister said on Tuesday, as his defense minister warned of the possibility of a renewed campaign against the Islamic Republic.
Public anger has mounted after security forces guarding a military base in central Iran opened fire on two cars, killing four members of a family including a three-year-old girl.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has cast doubt on the Green Movement leader's call for a referendum on Iran's political future, saying any vote under Iran’s current constitution cannot bring about democratic change.
Iranian state media on Wednesday announced the death of a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander five days after the death of top figure who also helped oversee the Islamic Republic’s suppression of protests.
A joint American-Israeli plan to collapse Iran’s leadership within days of a surprise Israeli attack last month failed and only alienated the public, Iranian presidential aide Ali Rabiei said.
Five Kurdish men detained during the 2022 protests in Iran have been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in the city of Urmia, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said on Monday.
Persian Gulf states are quietly relieved that the 12-day war with Israel has weakened the Islamic Republic, security experts told Iran International, though Tehran's Arab rivals prefer a declawed Iran to a regime change that would lead to instability.