Iran

The capital is Tehrān a sprawling jumbled metropolis at the southern foot. Iran police investigating protester shooting video.

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Iran has issued a first death sentence over protests that have mounted a fierce challenge to four decades of hardline clerical rule as rights groups warn that a wave of executions may follow as.

. Iran is a presumed source transit and destination country for men women and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. Iran a mountainous arid and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia. Irans protesters helped by power of social media.

Most of the population lives on the edges of this forbidding waterless waste. Much of Iran consists of a central desert plateau which is ringed on all sides by lofty mountain ranges that afford access to the interior through high passes. The history of Iran which was commonly known until the mid-20th century as Persia in the Western world is intertwined with the history of a larger region also to an extent known as Greater Iran comprising the area from Anatolia in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east and from the Caucasus.

Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps says the attack targeted terrorist groups in the Kurdish re. According to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group at least 342 people including 43 children and 26 women have been killed during the protests so far. Iranian women are subjected to sex trafficking in Iran Pakistan the Persian Gulf and Europe.

Iranian and Afghan boys and girls are forced into prostitution domestically. Other human rights groups have come to. Irans hardline judiciary has sentenced five protesters to death and said it will put on trial more than 2000 people indicted for unrest intensifying efforts to crush weeks of demonstrations.

Iran police fire on mourners - witnesses. 1 day agoAcross Iran scores of protesters have gone to hospitals with eyes ruptured by the metal pellets and rubber bullets that security forces fire to disperse crowds. Iran officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and also called Persia is a country in Western AsiaIt is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

Iran rockets hit Kurdish party HQ near Iraqs Erbil kill one.

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