The mayor of Atlanta, one of the dozens of US cities hit by massive protests after the police killing of a black man, has a message for demonstrators: “If you were out protesting last night, you probably need to go get a COVID test this week.

One person was killed in downtown Detroit after someone in an SUV fired shots into a crowd of people gathering in protests for George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis custody.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian First Vice President Ishaq Jahangiri said on Friday that the people are entitled to stage peaceful protests to seek their rights, urging the three branches of the government to create a mechanism for that purpose. “All officials in the three branches of the government, as well as the country’s officials […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraqi authorities have announced curfew in the holy city of Najaf after masked assailants attacked and set fire on the Iranian consulate. The rioters entered the compound and torched the entire consulate building late Wednesday, police and civil defense sources said. The staff members at the Iranian consulate had been evacuated […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Police committed “serious human rights violations” as weeks of chile protests across the South American country claimed 25 lives, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a report calling for reform of the force. HRW said the police, known as Carabineros, “committed serious human rights violations, including excessive use of force in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The fact that from the very first hours demonstrators were not joining riots and thugs in the last week’s protests over increase in gasoline price testifies the people’s vigilance and this is admirable, Brigadier General Ayoub Soleimani, the deputy police chief, said on Tuesday. On Monday, people poured into Tehran’s main […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Protesters blocked roads in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Monday, pressing a wave of anti-government demonstrations that have plunged the country into political turmoil at a time of economic crisis. The nationwide protests, which were ignited on Oct. 17 by a government proposal to tax WhatsApp calls, led Saad […]

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said he would submit his resignation on Tuesday, declaring he had hit a “dead end” in trying to resolve a crisis unleashed by huge anti-corruption protests. Iran News covers the story of how Hariri resigns. Lebanon has been paralyzed by an unprecedented wave of protests against the political class that […]

People in Bahrain once again poured into the streets in various cities to condemn the Manama regime’s continued crackdown on dissidents and to denounce the prime minister’s “sham” resignation. During the protests on Sunday night, the Al Khalifa regime forces attacked peaceful demonstrators in Diraz, west of Manama, Bahraini opposition media reported. The protesters condemned […]