Saying that their skins absorb “atomic waves,” a top military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei charged that Western countries use “lizards, chameleons” to spy on Iran’s nuclear program, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “Several years ago, some individuals came to Iran to collect aid for Palestine… We were...

The Iranian regime said that a Canadian-Iranian environmentalist killed himself in prison last week after having been arrested two weeks earlier, the BBC reported Sunday. Authorities told the wife of Kavous Seyed-Emami on Friday that he had died in Iran’s infamous Evin prison. Emami’s son, Raam, an Iranian singer who...

An 81-year-old Iranian-American dual citizen has been ordered by to prison by Iranian officials following a brief release to have a pacemaker installed, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official, was arrested when he traveled to Iran in early 2016 to seek the release of his son, Siamak, who...

Iranian authorities have announced 29 arrests as women protesting the forced wearing of head coverings have continued across the country, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Friday. According to the RFE/FL the Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced the arrests and charged that...

In the wake of the anti-government protests in Iran, the United States government could show its support for the protesters by targeting the vast financial empire controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mark Dubowitz and Saeed Ghasseminejad argued in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Dubowitz,...

A social media campaign has taken off to identify and locate an Iranian woman who was filmed waving a hijab from a pillar box in Tehran—a punishable offense in the Islamic Republic—who has gone missing, The BBC reported on Tuesday. The news outlet said that renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin...