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.
Violent clashes broke out between security forces and student protesters at university campuses across Iran in the past week, according to activist and human rights groups in the country.
The United States will next week put the United Nations spotlight on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody and look for ways to promote credible, independent investigations into Iranian human rights abuses.
A day of mourning for Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman whose death in police custody sparked an uprising in Iran, was ended by violence on Wednesday as security forces attacked and shot at demonstrators in parts of the country,
Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in a show of support for protesters in Iran opposing the Islamic Republic.
European Union countries have agreed on imposing sanctions on Iran over Iranian-made drones supplied to Russia and used in attacks on Ukraine, the EU Council’s Czech presidency has said.
