GENEVA (AFP) — More than 400 prominent women, including four Nobel laureates and several former presidents and prime ministers, demanded Tuesday that Iran immediately release engineer and activist Zahra Tabari, fearing she faces imminent execution.

Over the past 50 years, Iran has been shaken by a series of protests. They began with the demonstrations that led to the founding of the Islamic Republic and continue to now, as protests sparked by the collapse of the Iranian rial have seen unrest.

Every anti-regime protest demonstrates that Iranians are willing to risk everything for freedom. The question is whether their courage will be met with tangible American support, or merely sympathetic statements.

TEHRAN, Iran — When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran’s capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn’t her main worry. She instead girded herself for disapproving looks ...

As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran.

What we are seeing in Iran is not simply an economic crisis. These are primarily symptoms of a deep political crisis,” said Yazdanpana.

TEHRAN, Iran – When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran 's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main worry. She instead girded herself for disapproving looks ...