ALI KHAMENEI

Protesters used the occasion of Chaharshanbe Suri — a celebration with Zoroastrian roots — to take to the streets and chant anti-government slogans.

Iran is celebrating the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests and heightened tensions with the West.

Iran’s supreme leader reportedly has ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for “tens of thousands” of people detained amid the nationwide protests shaking the country.

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran’s ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back in early January with a hack-and-leak campaign intent on striking fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database.

Iranian hardliners have burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting against cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics.

Iran may move forward with relaxing its hijab laws, according to a Wednesday speech from the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The country has been in uproar for months.

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Soccer fans in Iran's Kurdish majority region have cheered the U.S. win over Iran in a politically charged World Cup, amid ongoing anti-government protests.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a televised address has praised paramilitary volunteers tasked with quashing dissent.

Iranian shops in Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar and elsewhere across the country have closed their doors amid protests gripping the nation.

Protests in Iran have raged on streets with demonstrators remembering a bloody crackdown in the country’s southeast.

Iran’s foreign minister has acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

The brutal crackdown against protesters is undoing Trump’s damage to the international consensus against the theocratic state.

Iranian security forces have opened fire on demonstrators in a southeastern city that has seen weeks of unrest amid nationwide demonstrations.

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people.

Gunmen have attacked a major Shiite holy site in Iran, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens.

Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi has returned to Tehran after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf.

Iran's notorious Evin Prison went up in flames on Saturday. The regime has used the prison in Tehran to house political enemies and protesters following Mahsa Amini's death.

Iranian media say a towering blaze at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-government activists in Iran’s capital killed four inmates.

Iran’s president has accused the U_S_ of conducting a “failed policy of destabilization.”.

They show up at the first signs of protest in Iran — men in black, riding motorcycles, often wielding guns or batons.

As anti-government protests roil cities and towns in Iran for a fourth week, tens of thousands of Iranians living abroad have marched on the streets of Europe, North America and beyond in support of what many believe to be a watershed moment for their home country.

Mindful of the impact of oil strikes on the 1979 revolution, the regime will respond with even bloodier repression.

While the Islamic Republic of Iran faces increasing protests, experts see a nation choked by mass protests that is ripe for a democratic revolution from the inside.

President Joe Biden has hit back at Iran over the government’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests and he's signaled that more sanctions may soon be announced.

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Iranian president has appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country’s rulers, even as the anti-government protests engulfing the country continued to spread to universities and high schools.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded publicly to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn the “rioting” and accuse the United States and Israel of planning the protests.

Iran’s parliamentary speaker has warned that protests over the death of a young woman in police custody could destabilize the country.

Activists say Iran's current wave of protests are different from previous unrest.

International attention is important, but their chances of success depend on support closer at hand.

Iranians are experiencing a widespread internet outage amid days of mass protests against the government.

Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code.

Mahsa Amini, 22, died days after being arrested for allegedly not complying with rules on head coverings.

Iran has sent a written response in negotiations over a final draft of a roadmap for parties to return to its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

The U.S. Navy says Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U.S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf.

Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after being stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture.

Iranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death.

Diplomats say talks to revive Tehran’s tattered nuclear accord with world powers in Vienna have ended as the parties closed a final text and key negotiators prepared to consult with their capitals.

Followers of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr came by the thousands to storm the country's parliament at his command, and they rapidly dispersed with little violence.

For Russia, the Tehran summit was an opportunity to try to show it still has friends and influence.

The Russian leader’s visit to Iran highlighted how far his country has fallen from its superpower ambitions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin won staunch support from Iran for his country’s military campaign in Ukraine, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei saying the West opposes an “independent and strong” Russia.

A million pilgrims from across the globe are gathering in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform the initial rites of the hajj.

State TV says the death toll in a catastrophic tower collapse in southwestern Iran has risen to at least 38.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has acknowledged that Iran took two Greek oil tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.

Protesters angry over a building collapse in southwestern Iran that killed at least 33 people have shouted down an emissary sent by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranian media says Syrian President Bashar Assad was in Tehran for a rare visit to meet Iranian leaders.

Iran’s supreme leader is insisting negotiations over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal “are going ahead properly.”.

A leading European Union diplomat was holding talks in Tehran amid hopes that an agreement to restore Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers could be completed.

Iran’s top diplomat says that the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has accepted the idea of continuing to be sanctioned by the U.S. if it meant the restoration of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

The regime in Tehran is mistaken if it believes Russia’s assault will prod the U.S. to seek a nuclear deal and avoid another security crisis.

Thousands of mourners have poured into the streets of Iranian cities for the mass funeral of 250 victims of the Iran-Iraq war — remains recently recovered in a testament to the brutal conflict’s scale and enduring legacy after 35 years.

Face to face for over two hours, President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have squared off in a secure video call focused on Ukraine.

The national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates has met with Iran's hard-line president in Tehran.

Iran is striking a hard line after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal.

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog is meeting with Iranian officials to press for greater access in the Islamic Republic.

Andi Rice/Bloomberg via GettyThere are provinces in Iran where it seems there have been more COVID cases than there are people. In other words, it’s possible that in some of the worst-hit regions, a whole lot of people caught COVID twice.That’s not just bad news for Iran’s 84 million people. It’s also bad news for, say, the 3 million people in Mississippi and the 5 million in Alabama. Experts believe Iran is vulnerable to reinfection because it’s under-vaccinated and has relied too much on fragi

The U.S. Air Force has flown a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel.

Iran’s president is saying that a cyberattack that shut down gas stations across the nation aimed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption.”.

A cyberattack has targeted gas stations across Iran.

Iran’s new president slammed U.S. sanctions imposed on his nation as a mechanism of war.

President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that diplomacy was his first option, but that he would consider other options if his effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal fails.

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett have postponed their White House meeting as Biden focused his attention on dealing with the aftermath of deadly explosions near the Kabul airport that targeted U.S. troops and Afghans seeking to flee their country after the Taliban takeover.

"What we told people was not contrary to reality, but we did not tell part of the truth to people," Rouhani said.

In initial results, Raisi won 17.8 million votes to Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei's 3.3 million and the moderate former Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati's 2.4 million.

Non-enriched, uranium metal has little civilian use and is different from enriched uranium, which can be used for nuclear energy. The U.K., France and Germany, all supporters of the JCPOA, said in January that Iran has "no credible civilian use for uranium metal." "The production of uranium metal has potentially grave military implications," they warned. Still, regional experts believe the nuclear deal remains salvageable. "It's reversible, especially if done in the short term," she said of Iran's uranium metal production.

The admission came after days of vehement denial from the Islamic Republic, which angered Iranians and triggered a public backlash. Videos on social media showed mass protests and people chanting: "Death to the dictator," referring to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. "National Security Adviser suggested today that sanctions & protests have Iran 'choked off', will force them to negotiate," Trump said on Twitter Sunday, in both English and Farsi. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he "couldn't care less" if Iran negotiates with the U.S. or not, and again warned the Iranian regime not to "kill" its protesters. However, Cedomir Nestorovic, professor of geopolitics at the French ESSEC Business School in Singapore, cautioned that Trump's solidarity with protesters may not be good for them.

Baghdad The State Department issued a security alert overnight telling all Americans in Iraq to leave the country immediately. "U.S. citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land," it said. American allies in the region like Israel are preparing for possible retaliation and are on high alert, CBS News' Ian Lee reports. Soleimani is a polarizing figure in Iraq, and his death further exposed the deep divides on the country's streets. In Baghdad's Tahrir Square, anti-government protesters celebrated the news of his death, accusing Soleimani of being behind the deaths of many demonstrators in recent months.