Videos show demonstrators setting fire to tires, blocking roads in Khuzestan, as police use gunfire to disperse them

The move to impose asset freezes and visa bans comes at a sensitive time as Brussels mediates efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal

Patrols open fire toward vessels smuggling fuel to neighboring countries; protesters attack station in southern Hormozgan province with several said injured

Rights groups say Iranian government disrupting mobile data network in impoverished area to conceal unrest after several killed in clashes over border shootings

Representatives from France and Germany called in to foreign ministry after statements by bloc members condemning abduction and execution of Ruhollah Zam

Ruhollah Zam is hanged months after he returned to Tehran from France under unclear circumstances

Sentences were halted in July; original verdict led to UN, European countries affirming opposition to Iranian use of death penalty

Inmates accused of 'spreading propaganda against the system' freed in honor of Prophet Muhammad's birthday

Official says Navid Afkari killed at Adelabad prison in Shiraz; wrestler reportedly forced to say he carried out 2018 killing; Trump had called on Tehran to release him

Navid Afkarai reportedly tortured in order to extract statement; Trump calls on Tehran to release him