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Amnesty International demands the release of Iranian university student Ahoo Daryaei, who was arrested after stripping to her underwear and marching through the Islamic Azad University campus in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday.
2024-11-4

Explosions are reported at military sites and factories across Iran, including near the capital Tehran. Videos on social media appear to show explosions and large fires in the cities of Karaj, Dezful, and Tabriz.
2023-01-28

The first trial related to the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini begins in the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran. The five protesters face charges of corruption on earth, which is punishable by death.
2022-10-29

Iran seizes a foreign tanker, reported to be Iraqi, in the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian state media. The Iranians accuse the tanker of "smuggling fuel for some Arab countries".
2019-08-4

Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker "Stena Impero" and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker "Mesdar" in the Persian Gulf. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.
2019-07-19

An Iranian man attempts self-immolation in front of the Tehran city hall.
2018-09-5

Protests in Iran, particularly the capital, Tehran, enter their second day as thousands of protestors demand action following a collapse in the value of the Iranian rial. President Hassan Rouhani takes to live TV to call the protests "foreign media propaganda" and says the United States is waging "psychological, economic and political war" with Iran. Protestors blame the Iranian government for the crisis, saying billions are being wasted on expensive conflicts. Iran blames sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump.
2018-06-26

Six staff members at the British embassy in Tehran are taken hostage after the embassy is stormed by Iranian students.
2011-11-29

Iranian security forces reportedly surround Mir-Hossein Mousavi's office in Tehran.
2010-09-17

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flies from Moscow, where he met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, to Tehran for a meeting with Iranian officials there on the nuclear issue.
2010-05-16