Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials in Tehran to ease Middle East tensions and arrange U.S.-Iran negotiations.
The leader of Iran’s joint military command has threatened to halt trade in the Gulf region if the U.S. does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports, while U.S. Central Command says no vessels have made it past U.S. naval forces during the first 48 hours of the blockade.
Activists say the death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests has reached at least 7,005 with many more people still feared dead.
Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee warns that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi faces threats to her life from Iranian security services.
Residents of Iran’s capital were seen leaving the city and shops and the historic Grand Bazaar were closed Tuesday, the fifth day of the intensifying conflict started by Israel.
Truck drivers in Iran have blocked roads and ports as part of their strike protesting low salaries, high insurance rates, and a possible hike in fuel prices.
Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression.”.
Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has undergone a complex surgery in Iran that saw part of a bone in her right leg removed over cancer fears.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.
Iran has held a runoff presidential election pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker.
Iranians have voted in a presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash in May along with the country's foreign minister and several other officials.
A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country’s mandatory headscarf laws and its ruling theocracy.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has registered 285 candidates for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline, down from 2023 when it received 351 valid nominations.
Iran is holding parliamentary elections this Friday, yet the real question may not be who gets elected but how many people actually turn out to vote.
An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on Hamas traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment and the country’s requirement that women wear headscarves.
A U.N. independent investigator says Iranian authorities are cracking down on protesters, unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and carrying out an “alarming” number of executions.
The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be soon be revealed and the annual guessing game is reaching its climax.
The United Nations says its premier prize for press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian female journalists “for their commitment to truth and accountability.”.