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The head of Iran's judiciary says 22,000 people arrested in the anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic have been pardoned.

What began as anger at the hijab law grew into a bigger movement as Iranians said they were fed up with the regime's corruption, economic mismanagement and oppression of its citizens.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian officials and companies over accusations of serious human rights abuses, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests as Washington marks International Women's Day. The US Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on two senior Iranian…

Iranian teachers held protests in several cities on Tuesday over suspected poisonings targeting hundreds of schoolgirls. Security forces broke up several of the demonstrations using water cannons and tear gas, activists said. Meanwhile, prosecutors started filing criminal charges against journalists, activists and others over their comments on the still-unsolved incidents…

The Labour leader met the former Tehran prisoner during a roundtable event with Iranian and Kurdish women.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says culprits should be severely punished, amid signs hundreds of girls have been treated in hospital

More than 1,000 girls appear to have suffered ‘mild poison’ attacks since November

In today’s newsletter: More than a thousand girls have been affected since November. This is what we know

Officials in Iran initially dismissed these incidents, but now describe them as intentional attacks involving some 30 schools identified in local media reports