Ebrahim Raisi

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, seen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, has been arrested and charged with 'spreading falsehoods against the regime' (Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images)

Will world ignore plea from arrested actress as Iran’s tyrants kill its people?

A photograph of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, stands on a table among candles during a demonstration by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Berlin (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Brutally slow public hanging of Iranian protester shows why West must act

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in her support in front of the Iranian embassy in Brussels on September 23, 2022, following the death of an Iranian woman after her arrest by the country's morality police in Tehran. - Mahsa Amini, 22, was on a visit with her family to the Iranian capital Tehran, when she was detained on September 13, 2022, by the police unit responsible for enforcing Iran's strict dress code for women, including the wearing of the headscarf in public. She was declared dead on September 16, 2022 by state television after having spent three days in a coma. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)

Death toll rises as Iranians protest over hardline rule

People step on a poster of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as they protest outside the United Nations building in New York City (Picture: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Iran's president, the Butcher of Tehran, may now face justice after going to US

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran last month (Picture: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's bloodsoaked president must be banned from UN General Assembly

Protesters wave Iranian opposition flags and hold banners during a demonstration organised by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) to protest against the inauguration of Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi outside Downing Street in London last year.

Iran executed more than 250 people in first six months of 2022

Then US President Donald Trump holds up a memorandum reinstating sanctions on Iran in 2018 (Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Iran may be working on secret nuclear weapon and plotting to assassinate Trump

Protesters hold posters of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Major General Qassem Soleimani outside the US Consulate in Istanbul after he was killed by a drone strike (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Iran's call for UN to punish Trump just shows its hypocrisy – Struan Stevenson

Smog obscures the view from the Saad Abad mountain north of the Iranian capital Tehran in January this year (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

How Iran's totalitarian mullahs have wrecked the environment – Struan Stevenson

Supporters of the People's Mojahedin of Iran protest outside a Stockholm court on the first day of the trial of an Iranian man for war crimes over the execution of political prisoners in 1988 in Karaj, Iran (Picture: Stefan Jerrevang/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Iran's president will be terrified by war crimes trial – Struan Stevenson

Incoming Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi speaks during his first press conference following the election in Tehran (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Iran's new president should be indicted for mass murder – Struan Stevenson

Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary, waves to journalists while registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran (Picture: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Why Iran's next president could be the clerical regime's last – Struan Stevenson

Ordinary Iranians are sick of the mullah's regime, says Struan Stevenson (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's sick boast about its 'different' human rights – Struan Stevenson

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