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 ...

Iran has been here before. For decades the country has gone through cycles of protest and repression at the hands of the ...

Iranian state TV has issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed in the ...

Jan 21, 2026 KCRW’s signature music program — defying format since 1977. On today's mid-week hang, we hear Flea return to the ...

Demonstrators in Los Angeles wave flags and chant slogans as they rally in solidarity with Iranian protesters, after a ...

MUMBAI (IANS)-Actress and politician Smriti Irani, set to return to her iconic role as Tulsi Virani in the reboot of ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’, expresses strong confidence about her re-entry ...

DUBAI – U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the ...

A former Iranian Air Force pilot on Thursday urged those in the country’s military to safeguard Iranian citizens and not the interests of the government, as protests turned deadly. In a video shared ...

Iranian protesters are bringing the regime to halt over the cost of living crisis plaguing the Islamic Republic — with $1 now unofficially worth 1.4 million Iranian rials. The demonstrations, which ...

Remember the predictions from so many experts that a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites would cause Iranians to rally behind their regime? You can junk that conventional wisdom. As 2026 dawns, ...

Tehran, Iran — Iran seized a foreign oil tanker as it traveled the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state media said Friday. Mojtaba Ghahramani, a provincial chief of the justice department, said the oil ...

When people talk about Iran’s “axis of resistance,” they usually mean places like Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, or Yemen. But Tehran has another partner thousands of miles away, sitting on the edge of the ...