Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made an unannounced pilgrimage to the holy city of Qom, where state-linked videos and posts show him praying at the Jamkaran Mosque, a shrine closely ...

The Basij were deployed as cannon fodder in human-wave attacks during the Iran-Iraq War. Since then, they have been used as inexpensive volunteer enforcers and agents of repression. They are drawn ...

Iranian demonstrators set mosques ablaze during heated protests against the country’s Islamic government, according to local video and reports this ...

Video shared on social media on January 9th showed a mosque burning in Tehran during Iran’s most widespread protests in years. The date when the video was recorded could not be independently verified.

The scale of nationwide protests in Iran and the bloody crackdown that has followed is slowly coming into focus, even though ...

The bloody crackdown offers hints about growing tensions inside the country’s ruling system as the cleric’s rule comes under ...

Outrage is spreading after shocking CCTV footage from an Iranian mosque shows an alleged arson attack during ongoing protests, with children reportedly inside the building. Iranian authorities accuse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Video shared on social media on January 9th showed a mosque burning in Tehran during Iran’s most widespread protests in years. The ...

Video shared on social media on January 9th showed a mosque burning in Tehran during Iran's most widespread protests in years. The date when the video was recorded could not be ...