Iran

News reports that emerged from outside Iran put the number of dead protesters in the tens of thousands. Iranians inside the country, who took part in the demonstrations, tell a very different story

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The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

The fictionalised version of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s torment in Iran is damning for the state, and for Boris Johnson

Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

With the government exploiting emergency wartime powers, life in Iran may worsen for ordinary people

Donald Trump’s claim to have taken nuclear arms out of Iran’s hands is probably little more than bravado

Donald Trump's former chief strategist appeared to give his podcast listeners a heads-up about the White House's plan to bomb Iran

An impulsive reign has taken a deadly turn in Iran that could end in years of conflict in the Middle East - and an authoritarian power grab at home

US/Israeli action in Iran could trigger cyber war, sectarian violence and border conflicts across the Middle East

The world can’t afford a repeat of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But this new conflict might doesn’t look like having the same economic impact

The US and Israel have broken away from the international order and are pushing the world towards anarchy. The rest of the west must do all it can to resist

Israel and Iran’s long fixation has reached a tipping point. Will regime change in Tehran follow?

One day an engineer at a metals company in the Netherlands stole a trove of nuclear secrets and offered them for sale – his first customer was Iran

Trump doesn’t care about the bombing of Iran, or global security. Now Europe must fill the volatile vacuum he has left behind

More people are put to death in Iran than anywhere else on earth. Around the world, the protests are beginning

The cycle of attack and reprisal is unlikely to be broken in the Middle East

Sadly, the main four branches of the Iranian language are synonymous with areas currently involved in political and ethnic conflicts

After a brutal clampdown on their freedom, Iranian photographers have had to find new ways to express themselves

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime

Loopholes must be closed or anger over Alireza Akbari’s execution means nothing

The greatest threat to the Iranian regime may not come from sanctions or nuclear deals but from the demonstrations within the country itself

Headscarf protests by Iranian women have electrified the world. Will a similar rebellion follow in France?

British-Iranian Elika Ashoori considers what’s at stake for defiant women and girls in the country where her father was unjustly imprisoned

There is joy and relief that the British citizens are finally on their way back from years of detention in Iran. But after Britain reportedly finally paid the debt it has owed Iran for decades, what was it all for?

A woman trapped in Iran after being convicted of new, trumped-up charges. A husband starving himself in despair. A child facing another Christmas without her mother. And a government that won’t pay up to make it stop.

The Iran nuclear deal is hanging by a thread, says former diplomat PAUL KNOTT​, who worked on the agreement. If it fails, the world becomes a much more dangerous place. The Iran nuclear deal of 2015 has been a success. Its sole purpose was to stop the country’s development of nuclear weapons, and that is […]