Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of ...

An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United ...

Rostam 36 is an easy-drinking pilsner that draws from Persian culture but bears no love for Iran’s Islamic leaders.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Barry Rosen, one of the 52 Americans held in Iran during the hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981, on President Jimmy Carter's quest to bring about their safe release.

GENEVA — The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage, ...

"It is deeply disturbing that yet again we see an increase in the number of people subjected to the death penalty in Iran year-on-year," said Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

US President Joe Biden was recently presented with plans for a potential attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Axios correspondent Barak Ravid reported Thursday. According to the report ...

US president reportedly held secret talks last month on what to do if Tehran moved closer to building a nuclear bomb Joe Biden reportedly discussed plans to strike Iran’s nuclear sites in the ...

119 Baluchi people - a minority group from Iran's Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan provinces - were also executed. The NCRI's report also revealed that four executions were barbarically carried ...

Tension simmers between Iran and Taliban over a water sharing dispute ... not only create the problem of drinking water for lakhs of people but it will also be a threat to the environment in ...