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A photo of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi is projected onto the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet on Dec. 10. 2023. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iranians are paying the price for war

By Amir-Hussein Radjy - Associated Press

This cover image released by Crown shows "The Call of Freedom: Portraits of Political Prisoners and Dissidents" by George W. Bush. (Crown via AP)

George W. Bush’s new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

Iranian women without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walk past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran women are going without hijabs as the 2nd anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

First lady Jill Biden accepts the award for best song for social change on behalf of Shervin Hajipour for "Baraye" at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. The Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. President Joe Biden's wife said Friday, March 1, 2024, that he had been sentenced to over three years in prison over his anthem supporting the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Grammy-winning Iranian singer, awarded over Mahsa Amini protest anthem, sentenced to prison

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A voter fills out her ballot in the parliamentary and assembly of experts elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 1, 2024. Iran began voting Friday in its first elections since the mass 2022 protests over its mandatory hijab laws after the death of Mahsa Amini, with questions looming over just how many people will turn out for the poll. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran votes in its first parliament election since 2022 protests as questions over turnout loom

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Spanish Santiago Sanchez Cogedor is welcomed by friends and family members at the Barajas airport, outskirts of Madrid, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Sanchez Cogedor, who spent 15 months in an Iranian prison after visiting the tomb of Masha Amini, returned home to Madrid on Tuesday after being released. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spaniard imprisoned in Iran after visiting grave of Mahsa Amini arrives home after release

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A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Justice for Mahsa Amini" as she protests against the death of Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Iranian authorities banned members of Mahsa Amini's family from traveling to receive the European Union’s top human rights prize, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini's death while in police custody in 2022 sparked nationwide protests that rocked the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to accept the European Union’s top human rights prize

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In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, Iranian state media reported Saturday, Oct. 28.(AP Photo/Iranian state television, File)

Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's notorious "morality police," in Washington, on Oct. 1, 2022. Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prize

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Artist Soheila Sokhanvari in her studio with pieces of her artwork at Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge, England, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose latest work paid homage to the pre-1979 revolutionary feminists in Iran. Since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, Iranians worldwide have taken to the street as an act of resistance against the Islamic Republic. Marking the one year anniversary of Amini's death, which has been a potent symbol of resistance, three prominent Iranian women in the U.K. speak to AP on their fight for the future of Iran. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Activists in Europe mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf walks her dog at a park with graffiti against the government which is painted over in black, Monday, March 6, 2023. Iranians are marking the first anniversary of nationwide protests over the country's mandatory headscarf law that erupted after the death of a young woman detained by morality police. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

In Iran, snap checkpoints and university purges mark the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini protests

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Women talk as they walk around Tajrish commercial district without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarf in northern Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 29, 2023. More women are choosing not to wear the mandatory headscarf, or the hijab, publicly in Iran. Such open defiance of the law follows months of protests over the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country's morality police, for wearing her hijab too loosely.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi competes during the women's Boulder &amp; Lead final during the IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Rekabi left South Korea on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation's mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and could face arrest back home, which Tehran quickly denied. (Rhea Khang/International Federation of Sport Climbing via AP)

Iran’s Elnaz Rekabi, who competed without hijab, returns to Tehran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi competes during the women's Boulder & Lead final during the IFSC Climbing Asian Championships, in Seoul, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Rekabi left South Korea on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation's mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and could face arrest back home, which Tehran quickly denied. (Rhea Khang/International Federation of Sport Climbing via AP)

Worry grows for Iran woman athlete who climbed without hijab

By Hyung-jin Kim and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian Mahsa Amini as she attends a protest against her death, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Nasreen Shakarami, the mother of Amini, said Friday, Oct. 7, the teen was killed by repeated blows to the head as part of Iran's crackdown on anti-hijab protests roiling the country. Shakarami also said authorities kept her daughter Nika’s death a secret for nine days and then snatched the body from a morgue to bury her in a remote area, against the family’s wishes. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Protests in Iran over woman’s death reach key oil industry

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press