Yungblud on Protests in Iran: "We Have to Be Their Light Right Now"

"For four days, they have had their internet cut off, they have had their electricity cut off. They are in darkness, they are ...

Family of Iranian protester searched for her body in a pile of corpses and buried her on a roadside

The family of a 23-year-old Iranian college student believes she was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces.

What Can Iran’s Cinema Tell Us About the Current Unrest? Quite a Lot, in Fact

Cinema has been a part of Iran for nearly its entire history. Though the work of Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi is no longer extant ...
Opinion

Iranian-British Actress Nazanin Boniadi Urges Hollywood to Stand With Iran's Protesters

With thousands feared dead and information tightly controlled, the actress warns that inaction will only embolden repression: "Nothing in our recent history compares to this moment of reckoning." ...

Iranians use Turkey border to access internet during blackouts

KAPIKOY BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (AP) — A border crossing with Iran in Turkey’s eastern province of Van has not seen a major ...

Iranian Americans protesting Iran's crackdown on demonstrations talk about the unrest

Los Angeles is home to the largest concentration of people of Iranian descent in the U.S. Over the weekend, protests against ...

Iranian pop star Googoosh on her new memoir and life in pre-revolution Iran

The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...