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This month marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Mohsen Sazegara, a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program, was one of the group’s founders and a member of its first board of commanders. He later became a journalist and a reformist political activist. He was arrested and imprisoned four times before ultimately leaving Iran. He was interviewed by MEI in early May.

Almost 18 months since the death of 17-year-old Iranian girl Nika Shakarami after falling from a building, BBC has made another desperate attempt to distort facts about it.

The hijab enforcers have been ordered to stand on the streets of cities in Iran over the past three weeks, patrolling cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, metro stations and universities.

"Our Hezbollah-style groups in America are much larger than what we have in Lebanon"

‘Hijab enforcers’ help hardliners’ sweeping crackdown on dissent in the wake of protests that swept the country

A hard-line Iranian militia is hiring women to enforce the country’s strict hijab rules, using them to spy on other women and bundle offenders into vans to be taken for interrogation.

Khorasan Razavi TV (Iran) aired a rally of university students and professors in Mashhad, Iran in support of campus encampments and protests in the West on April 27, 2024. A speaker at the rally said that the Basij organization of university lecturers in the province of Khorasan Razavi supports the “freedom-seeking professors and students” in American and European

JERUSALEM (AP): A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticising the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death, his lawyer and rights activists said Thursday. Confusion still surrounds the...

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, known for his critical lyrics about the Iranian government and the death of Mahsa Amini, has been sentenced to death, sparking international condemnation

A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticizing the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death.