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Iran arrests a top actress who expressed solidarity with a man executed over protests
Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning movie The Salesman, was detained after she made an Instagram post about the first man recently executed for crimes committed during nationwide protests.
U.S. beats Iran 1-0 in a must-win World Cup match
The U.S. had to beat Iran to advance in the World Cup. Iran had to just tie in order to move on. The U.S. will go up against the Netherlands in the Round of 16.
U.S. soccer federation briefly alters Iran's flag to show solidarity with protesters
The organization had displayed Iran's national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic to show "support for the women in Iran" ahead of the two nations' soccer match.
Iran arrests a soccer player for criticizing government and insulting the soccer team
Voria Ghafouri, a prominent player who wasn't chosen to go to the World Cup, is an outspoken critic of Iran's authorities. Reports of his arrest came ahead of Friday's Iran-Wales World Cup match.
U.S. Navy seizes 70 tons of Iranian missile fuel from a sailboat to Yemen
The load — enough for a dozen medium-range ballistic missiles — was hidden among bags of fertilizer on a wooden ship called a dhow. It likely was bound for Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
Ukraine updates: Iran admits sending Russia drones as electricity knocked out (Nov. 7)
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Iran marks the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests
The country's theocracy, which came to power 43 years ago, faces one of its stiffest challenges amid weeks of widespread protests after the death of a woman arrested by the country's morality police.
In Iran, women are protesting the hijab. In India, they're suing to wear it
India's Hindu conservatives are championing Iran's female Muslim protesters. But they oppose Muslim students in southern India who are fighting for the right to wear the hijab in schools.
Iran's protesters find inspiration in a Kurdish revolutionary slogan
"Jin, jiyan, azadi!" — "Woman, life, freedom!" — has become the rallying cry for people in Iran and beyond who are protesting the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody.