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Guerillas affiliated with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) clashed with Iranian military forces near the Iraq border, leaving a senior army commander dead.
Despite Tehran's denials, reports mount from northern Iraq that Revolutionary Guards have been sent into battle against ISIS, and an Iranian drone crashed in a Kurdish village.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Iran to halt the execution of Razieh Ebrahimi, a child bride who killed her abusive husband when she was 17.
Iranian women by the thousands are posting their photos without a hijab on a Facebook page called My Stealthy Freedom, created by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
Amnesty International urged Iran not to carry out the execution of Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani, a political dissident convicted of "enmity against God."
Workers in several Iranian industrial centers marched on May Day in defiance of official attempts to shut them down, protesting labor repression and non-payment of wages.
UN human rights experts voiced concern about lack of medical treatment for two political prisoners in Iran—a blogger and a dissident cleric—who are at risk of dying in detention.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi spoke out against her own government and Russia for their "intervention in Syria" on the side of Bashar Assad's regime.
In addition to the naval face-off over a global oil outlet, the Persian Gulf has seen escalating militarization by international forces in the guise of narcotics enforcement.
The P5+1 world powers reached an agreement with Tehran committing Iran to limiting its developing nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
Sixteen accused militants were hanged in Iran’s Baluchistan province—in apparent retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush just the night before.
