Sources: Al Jazeera Arab News
Iran has begun recruiting children as young as 12 to man Tehran checkpoints. 2026-03-27
Dutch foreign minister Tom Berendsen announces the temporary relocation of staff and operations of the Netherlands' embassy in Tehran to Baku, Azerbaijan, citing security risks to personnel amid the Iranian war. 2026-03-10
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
Protesters set fire to the house of the Islamic Republic of Iran's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Khomein, Markazi Province. 2022-11-18
Tehran's chief prosecutor confirms that over 1,000 people have been charged by the authorities in connection to anti-government protests in the capital. 2022-10-31
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
Two massive explosions occur at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot western of the Iranian capital, Tehran; at least 17 people, including a senior commander, are killed according to Iranian state media. Mossad assumed responsible. 2011-11-12
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) starts designing a newer and a more powerful nuclear research reactor than the current Tehran reactor, according to AEOI director Ali Akbar Salehi. 2010-06-18
President Ahmadinejad says that Iran will itself produce the 20% enriched uranium to power the Tehran research reactor. 2010-06-12