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Iran sends hip-hop artist who rapped about hijab protests back to jail

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was previously charged with "corruption on Earth" and was released from prison two weeks ago after more than a year in custody.

01/12/2023

Iran

Iran claims a new ballistic missile can travel at hypersonic speeds

Iran has unveiled the Fattah-2, a new Iranian-produced ballistic missile which it claims can travel at hypersonic speeds.

19/11/2023

Iran

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi started a hunger strike on Monday after being denied medical care in prison.

06/11/2023

World News

Euroviews. Recent escalations remind us of the need to combat disinformation

There is no doubt that with disinformation becoming more widespread, we are in a war against weaponised information, Oliver Rolofs writes.

01/11/2023

Iran

Iranian girl injured on Tehran metro while not wearing headscarf dies

The official version is Armita Geravand fainted and hit her head, but there are rumours she was assaulted on the train for not wearing a headscarf.

28/10/2023

Israel

Who benefits from the information chaos around the Israel-Hamas war?

China, Russia and Iran are profiting from the information chaos around the Israel-Hamas war to advance their own geopolitical agenda, a report finds.

25/10/2023

Iran

Iranian teenager 'brain dead' after hijab law subway incident

Iranian teenager is now declared "brain dead" by Iranian state media after slipping into a coma earlier this month during a reported incident with officers regarding the country's hijab law violation.

23/10/2023

Culture news

Salman Rushdie honoured with Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Rushdie was honoured "for his resolve, his positive attitude to life and for the fact that he enriches the world with his pleasure in narrating.”

23/10/2023

Iran

Two Iranian journalists sentenced for 'collaborating with US'

Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been given prison terms of up to seven years each - a move that has triggered international criticism.

22/10/2023

Europe News

Top EU human rights prize awarded to Mahsa Amini

Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life and Freedom Movement in Iran were on Thursday awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

19/10/2023

Iran

Experts: nobody wants a big war in the Middle East

Iran has threatened to 'intervene in the conflict' if Israel launches a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Euronews spoke to experts about what this 'intervention' might be and its consequences.

18/10/2023

Culture news

Acclaimed Iranian film director and his wife stabbed to death in home

While authorities gave no speculation on a motive, the killings come in the wake of a crackdown against critics of the Tehran regime.

16/10/2023

Culture news

Salman Rushdie announces memoir about New York knife attack

Rushdie describes the book as "a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art."

12/10/2023

Ukraine

How Russia could use the Israel-Hamas war for its benefit

Russia could use the Israel-Hamas war to push some of its narrative, including that Western support for Ukraine will decline, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

11/10/2023

Norway

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi for fighting against the oppression of women in Iran.

06/10/2023

France

Parents of French prisoner in Iran call on Europe to do more

More than 365 days have passed since French citizen Louis Arnaud was imprisoned in the high-security Evin prison in Tehran. For his parents, the wait has been agonising.

06/10/2023

Iran

'Unbearable' alleged assault on Iran teen condemned in Europe

"Once again a young woman in Iran is fighting for her life. Just because she showed her hair on the subway," wrote German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

05/10/2023

World News

Europe attacked by Muslim leaders at UN over Quran burnings

Turkey's president said "racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia" in European countries had reached "intolerable" levels.

20/09/2023

Iran

Americans fly out of Iran after $6 billion prisoner swap deal with US

Some experts believe the deal signifies an easing of tensions between Tehran and Washington.

18/09/2023

Iran

How has Mahsa Amini's death impacted Iran?

The 22-year-old's death on 16 September sparked one of the largest - and most significant - waves of dissent to shake the Islamic Republic in years.

16/09/2023