Protests continue in Iran amid lethal crackdown by security forces
The demonstrators appeared to be defiantly heeding a call for a day of nationwide rallies.
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The demonstrators appeared to be defiantly heeding a call for a day of nationwide rallies.
Doctors tell CBS News they can't keep up with "SOS messages" from people suffering wounds that seem to corroborate reports of "excessive and lethal" force.
The 16-year-old girl, who died in the early days of the protests against Iran's leaders, has become another icon of the movement.
Pressure had been piled on Iran to free Baquer Namazi, 85, as his health has deteriorated. His son, however has not been released.
"They can't arrest all of us," declared one of the many young women who've joined mass protests demanding an end to Iran's repressive regime.
Rights groups say forces "attacked" a top Tehran university, leading to clashes as weeks of anti-government unrest escalates and the ayatollah blames the U.S. and Israel.
The U.S., U.K. and United Nations have condemned the attack targeting Kurdish opposition groups as an unprovoked assault on Iraqi sovereignty.
A singer whose protest song went viral and a former pro soccer player are among those reportedly detained as backlash against woman's killing spirals.
Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of Iran's "morality police" has sparked 11 days of protests against the country's ruling Islamic clerics.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken: For sanctions to be lifted, "Iran knows very well what it needs to do."
Some fear a massive crackdown will soon follow.
Protests that erupted in one province after a woman detained by Iran's "morality police" died in custody have spread to more than 50 cities and towns, including the capital.
The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, has sparked deadly protests and drawn rare public criticism from Iranian officials.
The police have said Mahsa Amini suffered a heart attack.
According to two human rights groups, the women were condemned on the charge of "spreading corruption on earth."
Israel's prime minister has branded the deal on the table a "bad one," and warned it will give billions of dollars to Iran and its regional militia groups.
Iran's state-run media announced the death but gave no info on Revolutionary Guard Corps General Abolfazl Alijani's "mission," or his demise.
"We do not consider anyone other than Salman Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame and even condemnation," said a foreign ministry spokesman.
Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union have resumed monthslong, indirect talks over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Russian autocrat that their two heavily sanctioned nations should maximize their "mutual cooperation."
But after Biden reaffirmed to Israel that the U.S. wouldn't let that happen, an advisor to the supreme leader says Tehran still hasn't "made a decision" to build one.
U.S. warship fires warning flare to ward off Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it, as IAEA says Iran stepping up uranium enrichment yet again.
The U.N. atomic watchdog agency chief says Iran's removal of dozens of surveillance cameras will worsen "a very tense situation" amid efforts to revive the pact.
U.S. and allies will seek formal censure of Iran by the global nuclear watchdog, despite Iran's warning against doing so, as Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium grows.
"I will kill the one who killed my brother!" chanted the crowd in a rare challenge to Iran's ruling Islamic clerics, who are coming under mounting pressure.