Iran’s theocracy has faced down protests and U.S. threats in the past, and the crackdown showed the iron grip it holds over the country. This week, authorities organized pro-government rallies with ...

Iran is seeking to execute a decorated Iranian wrestler for merely peacefully protesting against the regime in early January, prompting the U.S. State Department on Wednesday to demand that Tehran ...

Critics urge sports organizations to ban Iran after regime allegedly executed thousands of anti-government protesters, including young wrestlers.

Mr. Soltani, 26, was arrested last month as Iran brutally repressed anti-government demonstrations. An Iranian protester who ...

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric in Iran, on Friday called for the execution of protesters across Tehran as the government seeks to stifle demonstrations in the capital. “Armed hypocrites ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump signaled why he's held off on military strikes on Iran amid nationwide protests after claiming the country ...

Detained Iranian protester Erfan Soltani, whose execution did not take place on Wednesday as some had feared, is in good physical health and has been able to meet with his family, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soaring executions in Iran suggest use as 'tool of state intimidation,' UN says Iran appears to be using executions "as a tool of ...

Nationwide protests erupted on Dec. 28 over economic hardship, leading to the deadliest unrest since Iran's 1979 Islamic ...

Iran is threatening to continue mass executions of protesters arrested during its brutal crackdown on a nationwide uprising against the despotic regime, and warned the US that deploying forces would ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's top prosecutor on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claims that he halted the hangings of 800 detained protesters there "completely false." ...