Tehran

In December news emerged that the regime in Tehran had decided to abolish its notorious morality police. But how much has really changed?

The low-tech, low-cost drones have brought terror to Ukrainian cities as air defense teams try to adapt to the threat.

China and Russia voted to keep Iran part of the U.N.'s premier governing body on women's empowerment and gender equality, despite the ongoing unrest in Iran.

The execution of the 23-year-old for his alleged role in protests in Tehran in September has been condemned internationally.

Hundreds of people have been killed in Iran during demonstrations that have lasted for months.

An Australian woman held prisoner in Iran for over two years told Newsweek that the guard was a "masterful manipulator."

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's remarks came as several demonstrators have been sentenced to death, with over 1,000 protesters facing charges.

Video on social media shows the funeral of a student who died in Tabriz on Wednesday.

"If they force us to do things like [wearing the] hijab and filter everything for us, we will filter their visibility," one woman in Iran told Newsweek.

Seyyed Nizamuddin Mousavi, spokesman of the Islamic Council's Presidium, refuted reports that officials were pushing for protesters to face the death penalty.

With protests continue in Iran, local stars have refused to back down, facing arrest, harassment, and the confiscation of their passports for speaking out.

The latest protests add to anger following the death in September of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died after she was detained by the morality police.

The blaze erupted as Iran has been rocked by large protests after the death of Mahsa Amini in mid-September.

Videos on social media showed workers demonstrating at refineries in the south after Iran's chief justice said, "If we've made mistakes, we can amend them."

An expert told Newsweek that Iran giving drones to Russia for use in Ukraine makes it harder for the U.S. and Europe to get the country to stop nuclear plans.

Amini, 22, was a Kurdish woman accused of wearing "unsuitable attire" and died in police custody three days after she was arrested.

Protests erupted across Iran after a 22-year-old woman died after reportedly being beaten by police.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran told Newsweek the State Department should refuse a visa for President Ebrahim Raisi.

"That act is called cannibalism, because you're literally robbing a part from one airplane putting in another one to make it work," an expert told Newsweek.

After holding Aras Amiri for months, Iran sentenced her in 2019 to 10 years in prison on charges of spying on cultural activities in Iran.

The 2015 nuclear deal eased sanctions on Iran in exchange for adding limits on its nuclear program, but President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. in 2018.

A U.N. agency said it was unable to specify exactly how large the cache has become because of restrictions imposed on. inspectors by Tehran earlier this year.

Iran's nuclear program has reportedly breached several facets of the 2015 nuclear deal monitored by the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iran's Civil Aviation Authority said the plane actually refueled in the north-eastern Iranian city of Mashhad and then flew to Kyiv.

The drought protests that began in Khuzestan earlier this month have taken on more overtly anti-regime sentiment and reached the capital.

The media outlet said that the strike "left no casualties or damages and was unable to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program."

The former national security advisor told Newsmax that the current Biden administration does not realize how "flawed" the deal is.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned the United States to "wake up" and not to embrace Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's new ultraconservative president-elect.

"He was the same person before this election as he is after the election," said the White House national security adviser of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following Ebrahim Raisi's victory in Iran's presidential election.

A panel under Iran's supreme leader's watch disqualified several of Raisi's moderate challengers ahead of the election.