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
Following the ordered closure of the Islamic Centre Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, Iran orders the closure of two branches of a German language school in Tehran for "breaching Iranian law, committing various illegal actions and extensive financial violations." In response, Germany summons the Iranian ambassador. 2024-08-20
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
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran, sentences Olivier Vandecasteele, a Belgian aid worker to a minimum of 12 and a half years in prison and 74 lashes on espionage charges. 2023-01-10
A bus overturns on the Qom–Tehran Highway in Iran, killing eight people (including the driver) and injuring more than thirty others. Officials claim the driver fell asleep. 2019-03-1
Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Ali Najafi resigns from his post after eight months in the office. His last resignation was rejected by the City Council. 2018-04-10
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
Thousands of opposition supporters from Iran's Green Movement march silently through the capital Tehran calling for the release of political prisoners. 2012-02-14
Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari is killed and his wife injured, while another scientist is wounded during two attacks in Tehran. Iran says Western governments and Israel may have carried out the killing. 2010-11-29
President Ahmadinejad says that Iran will itself produce the 20% enriched uranium to power the Tehran research reactor. 2010-06-12