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• Video shows Iranian police beating, sexually humiliating teenage detainee

  A video posted in mid-September showing Iranian police officers beating and sexually harassing an arrested teenage boy has caused widespread outrage in Iran. Experts say such…

  

• Videos show US missiles being launched from Kuwait into Iran

  Despite denials from Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region, there is growing evidence that their territory is being used in attacks on the Iranian regime…

  

• Public executions in Iran spark anti-regime protests

  The Islamic Republic publicly executed two Iranian protesters in Isfahan at dawn on July 28. Several hundred people gathered near a stage set up in the…

  

• ‘How to shoot down an F-18’: Videos show Iran militia members training to use anti-aircraft missiles

  Iran’s military forces are preparing for a potential new round of US-Israeli attacks by deploying more man-portable air defence systems, or MANPADS, drawing on lessons from…

  

• ‘It’s feminist and it’s badass’: the Iranian women taking up pole dancing and aerial dance

  Hanging from a rope, a harness or a hoop, Iranian women are flocking to gyms to perform aerial dance and sharing videos of their routines on…

  

• ‘We will shoot the thugs’: Iranian police crack down on crime

  “From now on, we will shoot the thugs,” promised Iran's notorious police chief, Ahmad-Reza Radan, in an interview with the media in April 2025. Since then,…

  

• Propaganda slip-up: Iran accidentally exposes sensitive missile data

  On May 4, 2025, Tehran announced it had tested a new ballistic missile system. Iranian state television swiftly began broadcasting propaganda videos showcasing the test. However,…

  

• Iranian female singers face arrests and police summons

  In Iran, at least seven women have recently been arrested or summoned for questioning by police. The Iranian regime does not allow women to sing in…

  

• Vanishing reservoirs, empty taps: how Iran’s water crisis became a national emergency

  In recent days, images of vast, dried-up reservoirs near Tehran have circulated on social media. These dams supply water to more than nine million people in…

  

• “It will be our execution order”: US deportations leave asylum seekers in limbo

  An Iranian woman who was among 299 migrants deported by the United States to Panama has appealed to President Donald Trump for a reprieve so she…