Iran atrocities

Iran’s former empress Farah Pahlavi calls for day of mourning for protesters murdered by regime

Farah Pahlavi calls for a National Day of Mourning on January 23 to honor victims of Iran’s protest crackdown, urging Iranians worldwide to observe a minute of silence.

JANUARY 21, 2026|ByALEX WINSTON

Iran's Former Empress Farah Pahlavi poses during a photo session at her home in Paris on January 20, 2026. The widow of Iran's former shah, Farah Pahlavi, believes that 'there is no turning back' after the protests against the Islamic Republic.

Mourners carry a coffin during a funeral procession for members of security forces and civilians said to be killed in protests on Sunday, amid evolving anti-government unrest, in Tehran, Iran, in this screengrab from a video released on January 11, 2026.

Iran admits at least 3,000 killed in protest crackdown, UN dismayed by 'horrific violence'

"This cycle of horrific violence cannot continue. The Iranian people and their demands for fairness, equality and justice must be heard," Volker Turk said.

JANUARY 13, 2026|ByFRAIDY MOSER, ALEX WINSTON, REUTERS

Illustration shows USA and Iranian flags

US targets network supporting Iran's drone, weapons programs

"The United States will continue to expose foreign procurement networks in any jurisdiction that supports Iran’s military-industrial complex."

MARCH 21, 2023|ByREUTERS

Basij militia forces attend a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran November 26, 2022.

Top Iranian Sunni cleric says torture of protesters un-Islamic

Religious clerics in Iran said that "confessions under coercion and the beating of the accused have no place in sharia (Islamic law) and our country's constitution."

JANUARY 6, 2023|ByREUTERS

Iran's business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015ByNEVILLE TELLER

Iran vs Israel: Nuclear Beauty Contest III

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015ByMARC DUBEY

Iran prepares fateful verdict on Jason Rezaian

Rezaian, Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post, was detained on July 22, 2014 and imprisoned for nine months without charges.

AUGUST 30, 2015ByMICHAEL WILNER

UN human rights experts demand release of American journalist held in Iran

Rezaian has reportedly developed a litany of health problems resulting from full-day interrogations, months in solitary confinement.

AUGUST 15, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF

Iran arrests hotel staff after Saudis pilgrims poisoned

A total of 24 members of the Saudi group were admitted to hospital, of whom four had died.

JUNE 8, 2015ByREUTERS

Ahmadinejad's ex-deputy arrested as scandal looms over former government

In January, former vice-president Mohammad Reza Rahimi was jailed for five years and ordered to pay 38.5 billion rials after being found guilty of money laundering, embezzlement.

JUNE 8, 2015ByREUTERS

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the UN General Assembly in New York in 2012.

Iran's FM denies Islamic Republic jails people for their opinions

"Iran does not jail people for their opinions," Zarif said, despite the fact that Iran ranks 173 according to the 2014 Press Freedom Index, right after Sudan.

MAY 2, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF