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For Iran's clerical leaders, engaging with the "Great Satan" to hammer out a nuclear deal and ease crippling sanctions may ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, allotted 40 billion rials to help release prisoners of ...

Nearly a third of the population suffers from psychological disorders, with even higher rates among young people and women, ...

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a ...

An anonymous official told Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency that the flogging came as punishment for possessing alcohol - ...

The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.