Iran riots

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  • Pompeo 2026-02-02 21:43

    Pompeo boasts of ‘lots of help’ provided to Iran’s deadly riots

    TEHRAN — Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. Secretary of State and CIA director, has provided a rare public admission that Washington orchestrated the recent wave of deadly unrest and terror attacks across the Islamic Republic.

  • Iran's govt. 2026-02-01 20:40

    Govt. publishes data of 2,986 Iranians lost in January unrest

    TEHRAN — The administration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday released the detailed specifications of 2,986 citizens who lost their lives in the recent unrest.

  • ICE forces 2026-01-31 20:22

    By Fatemeh Kavand

    American security and double standard of disorder

    TEHRAN - While Donald Trump labels American protesters “professional agitators” and calls for their imprisonment or deportation, the very same pattern of behavior has for years been framed in Western narratives of insecurity in Iran as “civil protest”—a stark rupture in how order, security, and the legitimacy of violence are defined.

  • riots 2026-01-31 12:28

    Riots in Iran Explained

  • Pezeshkian 2026-01-30 21:04

    Full list of persons killed in the unrest will be released

    TEHRAN – President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an order on Wednesday night to publish the names and identities of all those who were killed in the first ten days of the unrest in January in certain cities across Iran.

  • German PM 2026-01-30 21:03

    Tehran warns Berlin of consequences following Merz’s ‘low-minded provocations’

    TEHRAN — The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned German Ambassador Axel Dittmann on Thursday to deliver a condemnation of Berlin’s increasingly aggressive interference in Iran’s internal affairs.

  • riots 2026-01-30 16:28

    What was used by terrorists to kill innocent people?

  • riots 2026-01-30 14:15

    A Familiar Signature

  • Takahashi 2026-01-25 20:39

    US has absolutely zero credibility on human rights: Japanese professor

    Saul Takahashi says Trump encourages protests in Iran as sanctions deepen economic hardship

    TEHRAN - In an interview with the Tehran Times, Japanese human rights lawyer and academic Saul Takahashi critically examines U.S. and Israeli policies toward Iran amid the unrest that engulfed the country in the first 10 ten days of the current month.

  • فاطمه مهاجرانی هیئت دولت 2026-01-25 20:04

    UNHRC resolution ‘against Iran, not about rights’

    Denunciation continues over international body’s double standards and politicization 

    TEHRAN — Iran’s government spokesperson sharply rejected a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on the country’s recent unrest, calling the measure a ‘politically motivated’ effort to exert pressure on the Islamic Republic while ignoring Western sanctions and Western-backed regional wars that constitute grave rights abuses.

  • Qalibaf 2026-01-24 21:27

    Qalibaf hails IRGC for crushing US-Israeli orchestrated terrorism in 48 hours

    TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf declared Saturday that Israel and the United States suffered a “more humiliating defeat” in their recent attempt to ignite terrorist riots across Iran than during the failed 12-day aggression of 2025.

  • Iran Leader’s representatives 2026-01-24 20:55

    Leader’s representatives visit individuals disabled during 1980-88 war, recent riots

    TEHRAN - Over a dozen delegations representing Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei have visited disabled war veterans who sustained injuries during the eight-year Iraqi war on Iran in the 1980s.

  • Bahreini 2026-01-24 20:55

    Iran rejects Western-backed UN mandates as ‘human rights weaponization’ for political gain

    TEHRAN – Iran has formally rejected a resolution adopted in the 39th Special Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Saturday, denouncing the move as a “blatantly politicized action.”

  • Arrests 2026-01-24 20:51

    Tehran nets 148 ringleaders, two foreign nationals in another major anti-terror sweep

    TEHRAN – Iranian security and intelligence agencies have announced the successful dismantling of several organized terror networks and “ISIS-style” cells in a nationwide sweep, in the aftermath of what they describe as foreign-orchestrated attempts to destabilize the country.

  • MAGNIER 2026-01-24 19:20

    Trump’s ‘support for Iranians’ masks economic warfare and narrative manipulation: Senior analyst

    Elija J. Magnier argues US strategy weaponizes dissent while sanctions intensify civilian hardship

    TEHRAN- In an interview with the Tehran Times, veteran war correspondent and geopolitical analyst Elijah J. Magnier delivers a rigorous and unflinching analysis of U.S. and Israeli pressure tactics against Iran, situating them within a long-standing architecture of coercion, narrative warfare, and regional destabilisation. 

  • Shargh 2026-01-23 21:15

    TEHRAN PAPERS:

    Grossi acting as a complement to US pressure

    Shargh, in an interview with Sadegh Maleki, a senior foreign policy analyst, examined Rafael Grossi’s latest remarks about Iran. The language recently used by the IAEA Director General, rather than appearing independent and impartial, aligns closely with the United States’ latest sanctions and pressure campaign.

  • Girl and martyr 2026-01-23 20:54

    By staff writer

    Beyond the headlines of 3117 dead: Security body unmasks the architects of urban warfare

    Official analytical statement links recent atrocities to failed military aggression by the US and Israel

    TEHRAN — Iran’s Martyrs Foundation and the State Security Council released an official account on Wednesday night of the recent unrest that has scarred the country.

  • Khatibzadeh 2026-01-23 20:53

    US not faithful to diplomacy: Iranian diplomat tells NAM

    TEHRAN — Addressing the representatives of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at the UN headquarters in New York, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh issued an indictment of Washington’s foreign policy on Thursday, warning that the U.S. is systematically replacing international law with a “dangerous order” rooted in coercion and intimidation.

  • Foreign journalists visiting buses set on fire during the riots in Tehran in the first ten days of January 2026-01-23 20:53

    Pezeshkian: Enemies wrought recent crisis in revenge for defeat in 12-Day War

    By Soheila Zarfam 

    TEHRAN – President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a message to the Iranian nation a day after casualty figures from the terrorist surge convulsing Iran early this month were released, confirming official accusations that the U.S. and Israel had mobilized mercenaries and exploited legitimate protests to compensate for the defeat they suffered during the 12-Day War in June.

  • Iran International 2026/01/23

    By Fatemeh Kavand

    Trump, Iran International, and the dream of saving Iran

    A project to humiliate a nation’s collective intellect

    TEHRAN - They say Trump is the savior, protests are democracy, and tanks are on the streets of Iran; yet the admissions of American analysts expose the collapse of the Western media narrative. The issue is not Iran; the issue is a lie that must fall.

  • Dost Muhammad Barrech 2026-01-23 20:30

    US-Israeli strategy in Iran reflects long-term regime change tactics: Pakistani expert 

    Dr. Barrech draws parallels between the current unrest and the 1953 coup in Iran through sanctions, proxies, and disinformation

    TEHRAN - Tehran Times spoke exclusively with Dr. Dost Muhammad Barrech, a Pakistani expert in security and regional politics at the University of Balochistan, Quetta, on the ongoing unrest in Iran and the role of external actors. Dr. Barrech argues that U.S. and Israeli support for violent elements within Iran aimed to weaken the country’s economy and undermine national cohesion.

  • European Parliament vote 2026-01-23 20:27

    Tehran vows reciprocal action following ‘malicious’ European Parliament resolution

    TEHRAN — The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday issued a scathing rebuke condemning a recent resolution by the European Parliament as a “malicious distortion of reality” and an “unlawful interference” in the country’s sovereign affairs.

  • Fidan 2026-01-23 20:27

    Turkey’s Fidan opposes any US military aggression against Iran

    TEHRAN — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has issued a firm rejection of any American military adventurism against Iran, advocating instead for structured mechanisms to enable “serious negotiations” between Tehran and Washington.

  • Iran FM and Ukraine President 2026-01-23 20:27

    Iranian FM calls Zelenskyy ‘confused clown’

    TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has reacted to hostile remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy against the Islamic Republic.

  • Iran Prosecutor General 2026-01-23 20:26

    Trump’s claim of Tehran’s intention to execute 800 is ‘sheer lie’: prosecutor general

    TEHRAN - Iran’s Prosecutor General Mohammad Movahedi has vehemently denied US President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that Tehran intended to execute some 800 individuals.

  • IRGC Intelligence 2026-01-23 20:25

    IRGC intelligence arm foiled recent US-Israeli plot against Iran: statement

    TEHRAN - Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says part of the recent large-scale Israeli-American conspiracy against the Islamic Republic of Iran ended in failure thanks to the preparedness of the country’s security forces and the vigilance of the people.

  • firee 2026-01-21 21:01

    The legal accountability of a brazen interference: US must be held accountable

    By Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister

    Recent organized terrorist operations carried out in line with and following the imposed 12-Day war against the Islamic Republic of Iran have once again revealed the true nature of the United States' behavior toward Iran. However, beyond this, a fundamental question arises in the realm of international relations: Can governments continue to openly interfere in the internal affairs of other countries without paying a price?

  • Iranians walk next to a billboard reading “Iran is our Homeland”at Enqelab Square, Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13, 2026. 2026-01-20 20:51

    By Faramarz Kouhpayeh 

    10 lies Western media is telling you about the unrest in Iran

    TEHRAN – January marked Iran’s most eventful month since the nation came under direct U.S.-Zionist strikes in June of 2025. What began as harmless, peaceful protests by business owners demanding economic reforms—the fundamental source of the Iranian people’s hardship being years of crippling Western sanctions—devolved into what can essentially be characterized as systemic urban terrorism.

  • Erdogan 2026-01-20 20:27

    Riots were intended to disrupt peace and stability in Iran: Turkish president

    TEHRAN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reacted to the recent riots in Iran, unashamedly instigated by US President Donald Trump and the Israeli regime.

  • Lavrov 2026-01-20 20:23

    Lavrov says Trump’s remarks against Iran are ‘deeply concerning’

    TEHRAN - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that US President Donald Trump's incendiary remarks against Iran in support of violent protestors are “deeply concerning”.