Niloufer Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, the two journalists detained for 17 months after the unrest following Mehsa Amini's death, were released from prison on bail.

Some 90,000 have been pardoned following a landmark mass amnesty decree issued by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. This was announced by Sadeq Rahimi, deputy head of the Judiciary, the branchs Mizan news agency reported on Wednesday. Back ...

The lawyer for Sahand Mohammadzadeh, a detained protester in Iran's recent unrest and deadly riots says the countrys revolutionary court has issued a ruling on his case revoking his death sentence. Hamed Ahmadi said the judge in charge of the case has revoked the death penalty for Mohammadzadeh but the moharebeh (fight against God) charge ...

FNA - People in different cities of Iran are holding rallies to protest at the recent insulting moves against Islam Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and the holy Quran in the European states, condemning French President Emanuel Macron for his support for the blasphemous acts. University students, ordinary people and seminaries in the Central city of Qom ...

FNA - Irans Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi said on Monday that his country recognizes people's legal protest in quest for their rights, but shows serious reaction to those who endanger the nations security and tranquility. The Judiciary system is based on religion and law. We discern between protest and unrest. We believe that attention and ...

Reuters - The Iranian judiciary has suspended the executions of three men linked to anti-government protests in November, one of their attorneys, Babak Paknia, said on Sunday. Rights activists had said the death sentences were aimed at intimidating future protesters. With hardship mounting because of U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic,...

Al-Monitor - Irans judiciary said death penalties against three political prisoners have been upheld while confirming that three other prisoners had been sent to the gallows. Spokesman for the Iranian judiciary Gholam-Hossein Esmaeeli had a busy briefing on Tuesday detailing the death penalties of political prisoners including anti-government protesters,...

Tasnim Ruhollah Zam, the head of an anti-Iran website and Telegram channel who was arrested in 2019, provided more details of his activities against the Islamic Republic, including cooperation with French intelligence agencies. In an interview with IRIB, Zam, the founder and supervisor of Amadnews channel, confessed that his Telegram channel had ...

Tehran Times - Top MP Mojtaba Zonnour has said 230 people were killed during the protests in November 2019. In these incidents, 230 people were killed, while 6 of them were official and security forces, Zonnour said on Monday. IRNA reported. 20 percent of those who were killed were in the scene as active forces in favor of order and security,...

Tehran Times - Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli has suggested that nearly 200 to 225 people were killed during the widespread protests in November 2019. In remarks on national television on Saturday night, Rahmani-Fazli said the death toll will be announced in the coming days, but explained that some 40 or 45 people, meaning about ...

Reuters - Iran dismissed on Thursday new U.S. sanctions on several Iranian officials, saying they were a sign of the complete inefficiency of Washingtons previous sanctions on the Islamic Republic, state television reported. Washingtons fruitless and repetitive sanctions against Iranian officials is a sign of weakness, despair and confusion of the ...

Press TV - The United States has imposed sanctions on 8 Iranian officials, including Iran's Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli. The US treasury announced the illegal sanctions Wednesday amid the Trump administrations anti-Iran campaign. Iran's Law Enforcement Force Commander Hossein Ashtari Fard is among the seven others sanctioned. The ...

FNA - Commander of the Special Unit of Iran's Law Enforcement Police Brigadier General Hassan Karami said that his forces are not allowed to use firearms against protestors during unrests. "The Special Unit does not use military weapons (live bullets) on the scenes," General Karami told FNA on Sunday. "Our most important weapon is water cannon,...

Foreign Policy |ROHOLLAH FAGHIHI: Grief and anger seized Iranians after the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani last Friday. Enormous numbers of people took to the streets in cities across the country to commemorate him. It was a passionate outcry in favor of a figure whom American media described as the worlds No. 1 bad guy. But while Suleimani ...

Tasnim Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi is slated to attend a meeting of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission to brief the lawmakers on the illegal presence of the UK ambassador to Iran in an anti-government rally. The spokesman for the commission, Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, told ...

Press TV - Britains Ambassador to Iran Robert Macaire has left Tehran for London a few days after his brief detention at the site of an illegal protest rally in the capital city. According to Iranian media, Macaires departure has taken place with prior notice and based on diplomatic protocol. Iranian police detained Macaire but released him 15 ...

Al-Monitor - Protests have continued for a third night after Iranian officials took responsibility for accidentally shooting down a passenger plane in Tehran and killing 176 people. Protests have taken place at Amir Kabir University and Sharif University of Technology, which lost current or former students in Flight 752. Among the victims were a ...

Reuters - Iran will severely respond if Britain makes new mistakes, Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday, a day after Tehran briefly detained the U.K envoy for attending an illegal rally. Any new mistake of Britain will be severely confronted by Iran and London will be responsible for that. The presence of the UK envoy is against ...

Reuters - Britain has summoned the Iranian ambassador to the country to convey its strong objections to the brief arrest of Londons envoy to Tehran on Saturday, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. This was an unacceptable breach of the Vienna Convention and it needs to be investigated, the spokesman said on Monday. We are seeking ...

Reuters - Police in the Iranian capital did not fire on protesters and officers have been under orders to show restraint, Tehrans police chief said in a statement carried by the state broadcasters website on Monday. Videos posted on social media, posted late on Sunday, had recorded gunshots fired in the vicinity of protests and showed pools of blood....