Sources: Al Jazeera
Three men are executed in Iran for killing three security officials during protests in Isfahan in November and for links to the MEK Shia terrorist organization. Western human rights organizations say that the convictions were based on forced confessions. 2023-05-19
Police in Iran announce the installment of cameras in public places to identify and penalize women who do not observe dressing codes for hijabs, while also urging citizens to confront women who are not sufficiently covered. 2023-04-8
Four people are killed and nine others are injured by a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Tehran, Iran. 2022-07-28
The Supreme Leader of Iran Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares three days of national mourning in Iran. 2020-01-3
More than 100 people are killed in a Saudi airstrike on a detention centre in Dhamar, Yemen, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Saudi Arabia says it hit a Houthi military facility used to store drones and missiles, "in accordance with international humanitarian law". Iran labels the airstrike as a "war crime". 2019-09-1
Morocco cuts diplomatic ties with Iran over its support for the Polisario Front, a Western Saharan independence movement. 2018-05-1
The film "Facing Mirrors" hits cinemas in Tehran. Though transsexualism has been legal in Iran since a fatwā was issued in 1987 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Iran permits more sex-change operations than any country except Thailand, this is the first time the subject has been treated on the big screen. 2012-11-2
The summit is closed with accepting a 600-page final document that mainly focuses on the Palestinian issue as well as on Iran's nuclear energy program, but makes no mention of the Syrian civil war. A Chinese state commentary qualifies the summit as an "important" diplomatic "accomplishment from Iran", having hosted "leaders and delegates of over 100 countries". 2012-09-1