Vigilantes or Plainclothesmen (Lebas-shakhsi) in the Islamic Republic of Iran have been called "a prominent part" of the "crackdowns" by the regime on...

The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia...

demonstrations. The Iran student riots, July 1999 were sparked by an attack by an estimated 400 paramilitary Hezbollah vigilantes on a student dormitory in retaliation...

faction in Iran. Iran's "reform era" is sometimes said to have lasted from 1997 to 2005—the length of President Mohammad Khatami's two terms in office...

Plainclothes vigilantes attacked students who were protesting. Students also carried signs demanding freedom and free elections. In August 2019, Iranian civil...

Molavi, Afshin, The Soul of Iran, W.W. Norton, (2005), p.88, 316–318 Neil MacFarquhar (19 June 2009). "Shadowy Iranian Vigilantes Vow Bolder Action". The...

forces in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ansar-e Hezbollah, a quasi-clandestine organization of a paramilitary character that performs vigilante duties...

The Iranian student protests of July 1999 (also known as 18th of Tir and Kuye Daneshgah Disaster (Persian: فاجعهٔ کوی دانشگاه) in Iran) (7–13 July) were...

clerics." In turn, Iran's hardliners—the group most closely associated with vigilante attacks on dissidents in general, and with the accused killers in particular—claimed...

While many Iranians believed the attackers were conservative Islamist vigilantes trying to intimidate women into wearing (what the vigilantes deemed) modest...

16 September 2022, 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances...

Force. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force used them during the Iran–Iraq War. Iran claimed their F-14s shot...

Molavi, Afshin, The Soul of Iran, W. W. Norton, (2005), p. 88, 316–318 Neil MacFarquhar (19 June 2009). "Shadowy Iranian Vigilantes Vow Bolder Action". The...

June 19, 2009 Debate hots up in Iranian media July 1999 Vigilantes join the fray June 2003 Amnesty International. 1997. "Iran: Human Rights Violations Against...

Funeral Home. Retrieved 24 February 2024. Zargani, Luisa (20 February 2024). "Iran von Fürstenberg, Death of a Princess". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved 15 June...

ISBN 978-0-691-10134-7. Rubin, Michael (2001). Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. p. 90. ISBN 978-0944029459...

 'Jerusalem Force') is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence...

Republic of Upper Volta, a country in Africa now called Burkina Faso Vigilantes of Love, an American rock band Volans, a constellation Volapük, a constructed...

The Iranian revolution of 1979, in which Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown and replaced by an Islamist government led by Ruhollah Khomeini, has...

Speaks Out Against Cow Vigilantes After 'Beef Lynchings' Spark Nationwide Protests". Time. "India: 'Cow Protection' Spurs Vigilante Violence". Human Rights...

"The first Iranian vampire Western", it stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò, Marshall Manesh, and Dominic Rains. It was financed in part by a...

the founders of the Pakistani Shia vigilante movement Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), in the early 1990s (1994 in some sources), formed to counter and...

and President Jimmy Carter, the incumbent. The detention of 66 Americans in Iran, held hostage since November 4, 1979, was one of the leading national issues...

(1944 – 28 September 1987) was an Iranian Shia cleric who after the 1979 Iranian Revolution became a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards...

Dervishes Convicted In Iran In 'Unjust' Trials, HRW Says". RFE/RL. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2021. "Iran: Sufi Activists Convicted in Unfair Trials"...

overthrow the Iranian government. The group has adopted the slogan "Make Iran Great Again". Restart has been compared to QAnon by Ariane Tabatabai, in terms of...

titles in English include: Qaiser, and Gheisar) is a 1969 film by Iranian filmmaker Masoud Kimiai. The film was considered a "landmark in the Iranian cinema"...

Macmillan, 2005. (ISBN 978-1403962768) Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001...

The Iran student riots, July 1999 were sparked following an attack by an estimated 400 paramilitary Hezbollah vigilantes on a student dormitory in retaliation...

aspects of sharīʿah, with vigilante incidents in London (2013-2014) and Wuppertal, Germany (2014) resulting in criminal charges. In Iran, the doctrine of ḥisba...