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Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country's southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the US.over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington pulled out of the country’s nuclear deal with world powers. The announcement comes as Iran has been rocked by nationwide protests…

Iran is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to wear a hijab, as authorities struggle to quell protests that have been ongoing for more than two months .

Developers got permission from the climber to release the artwork

On Sept. 16, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in Tehran while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Her death set off a massive wave of demonstrations that have spread across the country.

Paris (AFP) - Shopkeepers and factory workers went on strike in Iran on Saturday as women-led nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini entered a sixth week, activists said.

Rekabi has reportedly been placed under house arrest after returning to Tehran

Reports claim that authorities have placed the athlete under house arrest and confiscated her mobile phone

After a month of tear gas and beatings and gunfire, Iranians may not be convinced to move on so easily.

Days after Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi caused an international incident by not wearing her country's mandatory headscarf while competing abroad, her fate is top of mind for the world's best climbers. “It has made me ill — nauseous,” said American Brooke Raboutou, speaking to The Associated Press on Friday at…