Narges Mohammadi, 54, won the ‌prize in 2023 while in prison for a campaign to advance women’s rights and abolish the death penalty. 

Officials reportedly warned that protests are likely inevitable, with uncertainty focused only on timing.

According to HRANA’s Statistics and Documentation Center, 78,907 people were arrested on ideological or political grounds from March 2025 to March 2026, highlighting a pervasive climate of repression across the country.

Two medical workers at Tehran’s Rajaei Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center recounted the horrors they suffered after being detained while treating injured protesters.

The question is whether the regime remains strong enough to quash an attempted uprising as it did in January, when it killed approximately 30,000 protesters.

The agency urged Iranians wishing to make contact to “take appropriate action” to protect themselves before doing so and avoid using work computers or their phones.

Several Jews have been detained on suspicion of involvement in the demonstrations.

Trump has said that one of the reasons he delayed a strike on Iran was a commitment to halt the execution of more than 800 detainees.

Pharaoh’s story reminds us that hearts hardened by power rarely soften while there is still a chance to escape the deluge.

In the confessions, the detainees are forced to express remorse for their actions as well as accuse Israel and America of instigating the unrest.

Activist networks say the death toll could reach 20,000, even as an unnamed Iranian official told Reuters some 2,000 people had been killed since the unrest erupted Dec. 28.

'Patriots of Iran, keep protesting and take over your institutions,' Trump wrote, adding: 'Help is on the way.'

'This order is final and conclusive,' Trump said.

If Khamenei could argue that the Cyrus Accord constitutes coercive intervention, he may feel entitled to launch missiles at Israel and activating his 'Axis of Resistance' proxies.

Israeli officials say Israel has moved to a higher state of alert, focused on the risk of an Iranian missile-and-drone response or proxy escalation if Washington steps in.

The senior leadership—Khamenei, the surviving IRGC generals and the nuclear scientists—know they are trapped. A trapped animal does not surrender; it lashes out.

Iran is facing its largest protests in years, with demonstrators torching Revolutionary Guard vehicles and targeting government and state media sites.

So far, 35 people have been killed during protests, including four children, and 1,200 demonstrators have been arrested. 

Is this a rare chance to confront—once and for all—the regime that sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah?

Matthew Nouriel, an Iranian activist and director of Community Engagement at JIMENA, talks to JNS about how Iranians feel about the possible fall of the regime and if a peaceful transition is possible.

As Iran is pummeled by Israeli airstrikes, Iranians gather to protest not against Israel but against their own oppressive government.

Israelis, as well as their leaders across the political spectrum, have been showing solidarity with the persecuted people of Iran.

Iranian students confronted the lies of a teacher claiming the killers of anti-regime protesters were Zionists and ISIS.

'For them, I am freedom,' Liraz Charhi, who stars in the hit Israeli TV series 'Tehran', said in an interview with Hebrew-language news site N12.

You probably think that Israelis and Iranians are sworn, enemies. But is that really the case?

As Iran brutally cracks down on anti-government demonstrations, Tehran stands to receive $275 billion in sanctions relief if it strikes  a nuclear agreement with the West.

The Iranian people have had enough of the tyrannical regime that is literally destroying their lives.

Inside some of Iran’s worst prisons, jailed anti-regime activists reveal they are very pro-Israel.

Demonstrators in Iran refuse to blindly follow oppressive rulers' vicious hate for the Jewish state.

After Iran was exposed for downing a Ukrainian passenger plane, protesters took to the streets and shouted 'death to the Ayatollahs,' among other anti-regime slogans.

'Can you imagine how our children feel when they know that terrorists could come bursting through a tunnel under our community at any time?' said Adele Raemer. 

Grass roots protests demanding freedom and justice in Iran are all Israel's fault, according to Tehran.

'While the Iranian regime is killing its own people, European countries rush to support that very murderous regime... Now is the time to change course.'

As Iranian civilians mount valiant protests against the tyrannical regime in Tehran, Israelis pray for their freedom.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman offered encouraging words in Farsi to protesters defying their regime in Iran to protest Tehran's support of a vast network of terror proxies in the region.

The protesters 'are chanting Death to Palestine, not Death to America or Death to Israel.... The people of Iran don't hate us. The government does.'

Listen to Netanyahu's words of praise for the gifted but persecuted Iranian people and his hopes for the future!

The Islamic Republic's leadership blames this terrible situation on America, but the people know better.

Watch this brave Iranian risk his own safety to express gratitude for Israel's support!

While Iran silences peaceful protestors and jails European citizens, the EU decided to invite Iran's Foreign Minister for more friendly talks.