Iran Protests

Prominent Iranian actress Hanieh Tavassoli was arrested on the anniversary of the protests and deadly riots across Iran, her sister announced on Saturday night.

Informed sources have rejected news circulated by some media outlets, including Kurdish ones, that Mahsa Amini’s father has been arrested.

The intelligence agency of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and the Iranian Intelligence Ministry say they have dealt a heavy blow to a network involved in orchestration of rioting in the country.

According to the Mizan news agency affiliated with Iran’s Judiciary, Javad Rouhi, a prisoner held under a legal warrant for involvement in last year’s unrest and deadly riots in Iran, passed away at a Hospital in the northern city of Nowshahr after being transferred due to a seizure.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi blamed the West for leaving the negotiating table with Iran in the hopes of pursuing its goals by supporting the riots and protests that spread across the country last year.

An Iranian court has handed down prison sentences to the remaining defendants in the case of a security guard who was murdered during the riots and protests last year near the capital, Tehran.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has lashed out at Washington and some European countries for “orchestrating the riots” that broke out last year across Iran over the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini.

Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned the Gesaas (retribution) sentence for Mohammad Qobadlou, who was arrested during the wave of the anti-government protests and deadly riots in the country last year.

Secretary-General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi has stressed that establishing an Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran is an unreasonable politically motivated act.

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested for “provoking violence” during anti-government protests in Iran last year, received a primary death sentence, but the ruling was later commuted to imprisonment, a report says.

The Iranian Supreme Court revokes the death sentences handed down to Javad Rouhi, who was arrested during the unrest last year and found guilty of three capital offenses.

The European Union on Monday imposed fresh rounds of sanctions on Iranian officials and organizations over alleged human rights violations. The EU has so far imposed several packages of sanctions on hundreds of individuals and tens of entities over the purported gross human rights violations during the protests that sparked following the death of a young Iranian woman in September.

Iran executes three man found guilty of collaboration in an act of terror that claimed the lives of three security forces amid a wave of unrest in the central city of Isfahan last year.

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

Iranian authorities say they have arrested a foreigner in Sistan and Baluchestan Province for instigation of rioting.

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'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 Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has slammed CNN’s "misinformation on Iran", including the news network’s reports on the recent unrest and deadly riots in the country, calling them “false and biased."

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force has said the enemies, frustrated with the failure of their plots against Iran, have resorted to extensive psychological operations as part of their hybrid war.

Iran’s President Ebrhaim Raisi says Western parties walked away from the JCPOA revival talks with Tehran and declared that they would pursue the issue with the Islamic Republic on the streets.

An Iranian documentary filmmaker has been released from jail after being arrested for participation in the recent unrest and riots in the country.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the enemies resorted to an abortive plot to incite riots and unrest in Iran after they failed to bring the nation to its knees via a military action and a campaign of sanctions and “maximum pressure.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has criticized Western media for “overstating” the number of those arrested during a recent wave of unrest and deadly riots in Iran and “playing up” the number of fatalities.

Iran’s Judiciary begins the process of reviewing the cases of inmates found guilty of involvement in the recent wave of unrest in the country and releasing those whose cases are compatible with the conditions set in the clemency granted by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf has praised the “fatherly approach” of Ayatollah Khamenei, leader of the Islamic revolution to those charged or convicted in the recent rioting and protests, after pardons and commutations, which were granted to thousands in jail.