She was arrested amid the passage of a new, stricter hijab law, which Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized this month.

Milad Panahipour, an Iranian lawyer, said Parastoo Ahmady, 27, was arrested in Sari City, capital of the northern province of Mazandaran, on Saturday.

With stars like T.G. Sheppard and a few drinking songs, Motown tried to launch a country label called Melodyland; then a TV evangelist got involved.

Rebels stormed Damascus and were victorious in ousting Bashar al-Assad this weekend. Much of the international community ...

Iran has released dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi more than two years after his backing of women's rights protests over Mahsa ...

Iran has released dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi more than two years after his backing of women's rights protests over Mahsa ...

Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian dissident rapper and activist, has been released from prison, according to a statement issued ...

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported ...

The conversations intensified in recent months, the sources said, driven by the possible expiry on Dec. 20 of sweeping U.S. sanctions on Syria and by Israel's campaign against Tehran's regional ...

CREDIT: Pat Batard/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been released from prison, months after the court overturned his death sentence. The rapper was arrested in ...

But Mr. Trump will face the same hard choices, including added tensions with China, the top customer for Iran’s illicit oil, and the prospect of higher oil prices caused by any loss in Iranian ...