Sources: Al Jazeera Arab News
Italy summons Iran's ambassador to demand the release of "Il Foglio" reporter Cecilia Sala, detained in Tehran for alleged legal violations. 2025-01-2
Israel launches airstrikes against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and Karaj according to Iranian state media. Four soldiers are killed. 2024-10-26
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is arrested at the funeral of 17-year-old Armita Geravand in Tehran for not wearing a headscarf, according to local media. 2023-10-29
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
Iranian police disperse protesters chanting "Death to Putin" outside the Ukrainian embassy in Tehran. 2022-02-26
The first secretary at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, Iran, is found dead after accidentally falling from the tower where she lived. 2021-05-4
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps admits it mistakenly shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane as it took off from Tehran, killing all 176 aboard. 2020-01-11
The presidents of Russia and Iran disagree with the Turkish president's proposal for a ceasefire in Idlib after meeting in Tehran, because it would not include the Islamist militants those nations aim to defeat. 2018-09-7
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
Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, returns to Tehran. 2010-07-15