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.

|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.

|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."

|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."

|ByREUTERS

Man charged with ties to exiled opposition group executed in Iran

Amnesty International had urged Iran not to execute man after what it called an unfair trial in which he was convicted of "enmity against God."

JUNE 1, 2014ByREUTERS
Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani, the Iranian man executed by Iran