Under the new laws, anyone found “promoting nudity, indecency, unveiling or improper dressing” will face hefty fines of up to ...

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Cardinal-elect Dominique Mathieu, archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan and the highest-ranking Catholic authority in the Islamic ...

Iran's parliament has approved a new hijab law imposing severe fines on women who violate ... calling for political change.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran will begin enriching uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges at its two main ...

Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But ...

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has avoided a death sentence and been unexpectedly set free from prison after nearly two years, ...

Iranian authorities on Wednesday freed Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison for three weeks on medical ...

Iran’s parliament has enacted a harsh new modesty law, significantly tightening existing dress restrictions that have already fueled nationwide protests and posed a serious challenge to regime ...

Mohammadi, a prominent advocate for the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, has been serving her sentence for campaigning against ...

Narges Mohammadi's lawyer said the Nobel Peace laureate was released for three weeks on medical grounds on Wednesday.