Mahsa Amini

What is Basij? The Islamic Republic's 'iron fist' to suppress protesters - explainer

Basij, a key paramilitary militia under the IRGC, has a violent history of suppressing protests, enforcing morality laws, and committing human rights abuses, including torture and sexual abuse.

|ByJAMES GENN
A Basij militia member patrols in Tehran following a US strike, March 5, 2026; illustrative.
A WOMAN holds a placard with a picture of Reza Pahlavi as people gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed.

Iranians join British Jews to celebrate Khamenei's death in Golders Green street party

Videos from the massive street party show hundreds of local Jews and Iranian expatriates dancing to "Am Yisrael Chai," chanting Iranian protest songs, and waving Israeli and Iranian flags.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
L to R: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump. (illustration)

Tehran must be confronted: Trump, Netanyahu should lead the West's moral stand - editorial

In Washington, Netanyahu’s appeal to Trump should resonate not just in terms of strategic deterrence but moral clarity.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after casting his ballot during the runoff presidential election in Tehran on July 5, 2024.

Khamenei's gamble: Iran admits to the slaughter and counts on the world to look away - editorial

Khamenei himself bears the responsibility for this bloodshed.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Who Is Bita Shafiei, 19-year-old girl who dreams of a free Iran arrested by regime? - comment

On November 13, Bita, a resident of Shahinshahr in central Iran, was arrested by Iranian security officials and and nothing has been heard of her since.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025ByALEX WINSTON
Bita Shafiei has not been heard from in over two weeks after she and her mother were arrested by Iranian security officials.

Iran's Islamic regime weak, but will fight to survive, Ex-CIA officer who infiltrated country says

Ex-CIA officer Reuel Marc Gerecht, who infiltrated Iran in the 1990s said that Iran’s regime, strained by war and sanctions, will use lethal force to crush any bid to topple it.

NOVEMBER 26, 2025ByELI LEON
Protestors stand on an image of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with a cross through it, outside the Iranian Embassy on June 22, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.

'With a smile,' Islamic regime judge hands 67-year-old death sentence after 'show' trial

Appearing before the court last week by video conference, Judge Ahmad Darvish was said to have delivered a verdict “with a smile” without proper process, Zahra Shahbaz Tabari's family told HRANA. 

OCTOBER 28, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Women with their hands and mouths painted in red participate in a protest against Iran's ruling theocracy following the death of young Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini demanding authorities to free thousands of detained protesters and to stop executions, outside Iran's embassy, in Mexico City, Mexi

US honors Mahsa Amini on third anniversary of execution in Iran

Amini, 22, was detained in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Mahsa (Zhina) Amini" Mural ; Hackney London.

'Sacrifice for the world': IRGC victims call for sanctions, terror designation for regime

Amini died in a hospital in 2022 following her arrest by Iran’s morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly. Her death sparked a mass wave of global protests.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The first mural, featuring Mahsa Amini and other martyrs, was a bold declaration of solidarity with the women of Iran.

'Iran can't be free unless all women are free': Oppression of women central to Iran - interview

British-Iranian journalist Jonathan Harounoff discusses his new book 'Unveiled: Inside Iran's #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt.'

JULY 9, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
People protest in Trafalgar Square on the first anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by the morality police in 2022 for allegedly flouting mandatory dress codes, in London, Britain, September 16, 2023.

Iran executes man accused of being an Israeli 'senior spy'

A United Nations report from January stated that the number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 in 2024, including 31 women.

MAY 28, 2025ByREUTERS
Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather to protest against the death penalty in their home country and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a "terrorist organisation", in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2024.

Big Brother in Tehran: Iran's police state supresses women with AI, drones

Authoritarian regimes often enforce strict clothing laws to assert their dominance over their citizens' physical and ideological autonomy.

MARCH 16, 2025ByALEX WINSTON
Iranian woman holds a photo of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during a rally that marks the 46th anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, on February 10, 2025.

Iran using drones, advanced tech in crackdown on women's rights, UN report says

Tehran began using aerial drone surveillance and a new facial recognition software in April 2024 to monitor hijab compliance in public spaces. 

MARCH 15, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Iranian police force stands on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, July 16, 2023

Islamic Regime rules musician to be flogged 74 times for hijab protest song, alcohol possession

An anonymous official told Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency that the flogging came as punishment for possessing alcohol - not his music.

MARCH 8, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Mehdi Yarrahi in Concert, Isfahan, Iran in 2017.