An Iranian court has sentenced leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes. (Photo: Behrouz Mehri / AFP)
Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah in a 2012 photo. Adelkhah was jailed anew for "violating" house arrest limits, an official from the Islamic republic's judiciary authority said on Jan. 16, 2022. (Photo: Thomas ARRIVE / Sciences Po /
An Iranian woman mourns next to flag-draped caskets of unknown soldiers who were killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, whose remains were recently recovered from former battlefields, during their funeral in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 6
A handout picture made available by the Iranian Red Crescent on January 4, 2022 shows members assisting to tow a vehicle stuck in floods in Hormozgan Province in the south of Iran. (Photo: Iranian Red Crescent / AFP)