An Iranian teenager who was reportedly assaulted by state morality police for not wearing a mandatory hijab is now ‘brain dead’, state media say. Armita Geravand, 16, fell into a coma earlier this month after she sustained ‘severe injuries’ following a ‘physical assault’ by female morality police officers on the Tehran metro, according to a human rights group. Hengaw,... 

An Iranian protester was sentenced to death today for setting fire to a government building, the first known use of capital punishment for participation in an anti-regime ‘riot’. The death sentence is the latest attempt by the Iranian government to suppress the protests which have swept the country since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September after she was... 

On Saturday night, Evin Prison in Tehran, the capital of Iran, caught fire. Video footage from the time showed smoke and flames billowing from the jail. Widespread, for some weeks now, anti-government protests were taking place when the fire started. Social media users posted videos of the jail facility on fire while an alarm blared and what appeared to be gunshots were heard. The jail caught fire... 

Iran’s exiled queen Farah Pahlavi has once again called on military forces not to allow the Islamic Republic’s authorities to use them as “tools of repression.” In an audio message on her twitter account on Wednesday, Pahlavi addressed police forces, the army, the Revolutionary Guard, paramilitary Basij forces and plainclothes agents to imagine their own sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers... 

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran is facing a slow collapse of the ruling Islamic Republic regime, according to Iranian expert Dr Roham Alvandi. The demonstrations, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, pose a significant challenge to Iran’s clerical leaders. Unlike previous protests, the current unrest involves unarmed young people standing... 

Iran’s president has called for a ‘decisive’ crackdown on the mass protests that have sent the Islamic theocracy reeling over the past week after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic’s morality police. The call for harsh measures come as the country’s ayatollahs scramble to get to grips with violent countrywide demonstrations that have seen... 

In spite of the government’s attempt to quell discontent with an internet blackout, protests are raging across the country, and the father of an Iranian lady who died in police detention last week has accused officials of lying about her death. Doctors wouldn’t allow Amjad Amini visit his daughter after she passed away, according to Amjad Amini, whose daughter Mahsa passed away following... 

In the footage, a sizable audience applauds as a lady raises a pair of scissors to her hair while showing no sign of wearing a headscarf. She chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air as the sea of people, many of whom are guys, yell. It was a potent display of defiance on Tuesday night in Kerman, Iran, where women are required to cover their heads in public. It was just one of numerous...