German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said that German experts have found no legal grounds to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
The British government summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in London on February 20 to protest what it said were serious threats against journalists living in the United Kingdom, as ministers launched a new security review into Iranian activities.
Reza Khandan, a civil activist and the husband of prominent Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, says he has been summoned by the judiciary to serve an older suspended sentence of five years in prison.
A prominent Sunni cleric from Iran's Kurdistan region has condemned the mass arrests of Sunni scholars from the region and criticized the silence of Shi'ite clerics on the matter.
The presence of a shah-era intelligence chief accused of human rights abuses at a pro-democracy rally in Los Angeles has led to controversy among Iranians.