Iran

Iranian right groups have warned that Iran has set up "mass killings" against the Kurdish citizens in Kurdistan province and West Azerbaijan in the past few days.

As Iranians mark the third anniversary of the lethal 2019 crackdown, at least 34 cities across the country went on strike on Tuesday November 15, 2022.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Monday unleashed a new wave of drone and artillery strikes targeting Kurdish-Iranian opposition parties in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Iran has reportedly agreed to a visit by the UN's nuclear watchdog this month as the International Atomic Energy Agency seeks answers on Tehran's continued uranium enrichment.

The watchdog on Wednesday warned that Iran has now enough highly-enriched uranium to produce a nuclear bomb.

Air attacks have struck eastern Syria along the Iraqi border, hitting Iran-backed fighters and inflicting casualties, a Syrian war monitor, Iranian state television and Iraqi paramilitary officers have said.

Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander said on Wednesday that “rioters” would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Germany and eight other EU member states are planning to expand sanctions on Iran to include individuals and organizations linked to violence against protesters in the country, magazine Der Spiegel reported, without disclosing its sources.

Iran has acknowledged for the first time that it has supplied Moscow with drones but said they were in limited number and sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used them to target power stations and civilian infrastructure.

Foreign ministers from the G7 group of nations on Friday condemned Tehran’s response to nationwide anti-regime protests in Iran sparked by the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.

Iranian state media on Wednesday has published a short video of Toomaj Salehi, one of Iran's most popular rappers in prison, which shows him in pain and under torture.