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Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested while traveling through Iran on a motorcycle trip in 2025. This February, they were sentenced to 10 years in prison on espionage charges. Lindsay''s son, Joe Bennett, has called on the Iranian government to use the month of Ramadan to exercise mercy.
As university students in Iran continued their fifth day of protests in the wake of January's brutal crackdown, demonstrators insisted they will keep showing up in person on campus despite an effort to promote virtual classrooms.
University students across the Iranian capital turned out for a fourth day of renewed anti-government protests on February 24, following a brutal state crackdown in January. Thousands of people were killed last month in protests sparked by economic collapse and oppression in Iran.
Iran has arrested the bureau chief of Japan's public broadcaster, NHK World, and transferred him to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, two sources told RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Hundreds of Iranian students have held protests for a third straight day on at least six university campuses, demanding respect for human rights and calling for regime change. Some chanted "Women, life, freedom!" on February 23, while crowds at Al-Zahra University called for regime change.
Iranian students held anti-government protests at several universities for the third consecutive day, according to videos published online and verified by RFE/RL.
Iranian students faced off with security forces outside Tehran universities for the second day in a row, according to videos published online, in the biggest reported show of opposition in the capital since the deadly crackdown last month.
Iranian students chanting anti-government slogans faced off with security forces outside a Tehran university, according to social media videos and other reports.
Mitra Aqili said she saw the face of her sister, Aida, among the dead in a new video to emerge following Iran's deadly crackdown last month.
The Iranian and Russian navies have been conducting joint drills in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean as the United States issued new threats against Tehran.
With chants of "Death to Khamenei," directed at Iran's supreme leader, mourners in Iran were defiant as they gathered to mark 40 days since the deadly January 8-9 crackdown by security forces that killed thousands of protesters.
Across Iran, memorials to mark 40 days since thousands of protesters were killed in January have turned into anti-government demonstrations.
A trophy-winning women's soccer team in Iran, along with celebrated actors, joined in nationwide acts of solidarity with the thousands who were killed by state security forces in a crackdown in January on protests. Soccer players refused to show emotion, while actors boycotted awards.
An Iranian state television reporter said “Death to Khamenei” in a live broadcast at a government rally on February 11. The reporter later apologized in a social media post and said the remark was a verbal slip. The channel's broadcast director was reportedly dismissed in response to the slip-up.
US President Donald Trump has signaled optimism that diplomacy with Iran can succeed, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fears a narrow deal could allow Tehran to expand its missile program.
Iranian 12-year-old Taha Hoshyar Baghbanani was killed while returning home from a trip to the store with his parents, according to his family. He's one of at least 200 children killed during Iran's violent crackdown in January, according to an Iranian teachers union.
Iranians in different cities called out anti-government slogans on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, responding to state-sponsored official festivities. Chants of "Death to the dictator" and "Death to Khamenei" could be heard as darkness fell.
Iran has arrested several prominent reformist politicians as the authorities widen their crackdown on dissent following mass anti-government protests that posed one of the biggest threats to the clerical establishment in years.
The family of Iranian bodybuilder Mehdi Chooghadi says he was shot by security forces on January 9 in the city of Shahreza amid a crackdown on nationwide protests.
As Iranians mourn thousands of protesters killed in a brutal state crackdown, two artists living outside Iran have published an anthem for the protest movement. Pooyan Moghaddassi, who wrote the words, said the title draws on a slogan used by the protesters to preserve hope in the face of tragedy.
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