Iran

Iran’s judiciary announced on Wednesday that a former deputy defense minister had been convicted and sentenced to death on charges of spying for Britain.<

Iran’s judiciary has ordered police to “firmly punish” people who violate the country’s hijab law, a news agency reported Tuesday, after nearly four months of deadly protests against the regime.

The US Navy said Tuesday it had seized more than 2,000 assault rifles smuggled on a fishing boat along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen.

Iran could be contributing to war crimes in Ukraine by providing drones to Russia, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday.

Iran sentenced a Belgian aid worker to 40 years in prison and 74 lashes for alleged spying for the US, money laundering and currency smuggling, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

The hanging in Iran today of two men who were arrested in connection with street protests, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, 39, is an escalation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s use of lethal force to crush

Iranian police have resumed warnings that women must wear mandatory headscarves even inside their cars, media reported Monday.

The newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to step up his efforts to derail a return to the Iran nuclear deal by airing his opposition openly and in public.<

A number of unidentified Iranian footballers were arrested in the northern city Damavand for attending a mixed-gender New Year’s Eve party where alcohol was consumed, according to state-affiliated media.

The Iranian military launched an explosive-laden drone from a landing ship at a mock version of an Israeli Navy base during a drill Saturday.