What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death.

Masih Alinejad is known for her outspoken criticism of the Iranian government and spoke in defiance after the DOJ's recent unsealing.

Two Eastern European mobsters were convicted in a chilling plot to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist on US soil—at the behest of the Iranian government. A Manhattan federal jury found ...