Legal

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has tasked a committee with looking into the dimensions of last year’s unrest and deadly riots.

An Iranian court has convicted the former top officials of the Central Bank of Iran, including ex-Governor Valiollah Seif, in relation to foreign exchange market turbulations six years ago.

Iran hangs the ringleader of an anti-Iran terrorist group and mastermind of a deadly terror attack in 2018 against a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.

A report says renowned Iranian actresses Fatemeh Mo’tamed-Ariya and Afsaneh Baygan face judicial action for not covering their hair at a public event, required under Iran's dress code.

Iran’s vice president for legal affairs says a proposal has been submitted to the government for legal negotiations with the US on compensation for the damages inflicted as a result of Washington’s sanctions based on a ruling issued against the bans at The Hague-based World Court.

Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanaani has rejected the "interventionist positions" repeatedly adopted by some German authorities following the confirmation of the death sentence against an Iranian-German national for terror charges.

Belgium has denied reports of a prisoner swap agreement with Iran that would see the release of an Iranian diplomat serving a 20-year jail sentence in the European country.

Spokesman for Iran’s Judiciary Massoud Setayeshi has stated that an Iranian diplomat who has been imprisoned in Belgium will soon be released in a prisoner swap. It comes after the two sides finalized a swap deal over a Belgian spy.

A court in Tehran has ordered nine American institutes and nationals, including two ex-presidents, to pay a compensation of nearly $313 million to the families of two Daesh terror attacks in Iran given “Washington’s role in the creation of the Takfiri outfit.”

UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths says he has held “constructive talks” with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on a range of topics, including the anti-Iran sanctions and the crisis in Afghanistan.

The UK government and the European Union on Monday imposed new sanctions on several Iranian officials and a telecom firm for alleged human rights violations. Tehran and several Western states have been engaged in a diplomatic row over their stance on the recent unrest in Iran.

A military court in Iran has issued a verdict for those found guilty of mistakenly shooting down a Ukranian passenger plane in the January of 2020 over the capital Tehran.

The Iranian Judiciary’s deputy for international affairs has criticized the UN special rapporteur for adopting selective and political approaches to the issue of human rights.

US Sanctions imposed on Iran and other states have not only failed to achieve its foreign policy goals but have also caused significant harm to civilians, according to an American think tank.

Former mayor of Tehran and senior Iranian politician Mohammad Ali Najafi has been permanently released from prison over two years after he was forgiven by the family of his second wife he had shot dead.

Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the Western states’ crimes in the past and in the contemporary era, saying the US and the European countries are in no position to comment on the human rights issue.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has rejected as politically-motivated a human rights resolution against the Islamic Republic, adopted at the 52nd meeting of the UN Human Rights Council.

Authorities in Iran have arrested a man who threw yogurt at two women who entered a dairy store in Shanzid, northeastern Iran, without appropriate hijab.

The lawyer for Sahand Mohammadzadeh, a detained protester in Iran's recent unrest and deadly riots says the country’s revolutionary court has issued a ruling on his case revoking his death sentence.

Iran has executed a man found guilty of killing a police officer using a firearm.

Iran's Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje'i has confirmed that the number of detainees who have been pardoned under a general amnesty has reached 82,656 adding that 22,000 of them were related to the recent unrest in the country.

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for the ringleader of an anti-Iran terrorist group known as al-Nazal.

The revolutionary court in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz has sentenced six members of Harakat al-Nazal terror group to death in connection with terrorist attacks in Khouzestan Province.

Iran’s human rights chief calls on the country’s security and judicial authorities to swiftly identify those behind the mysterious serial poisoning of students at schools in a number of Iranian cities.

Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on football legend Ali Daei and his wife.