Iran's Supreme Leader has accused his country's enemies of meddling in recent protest rallies, as the reported death toll reached 20.

Two prominent critics of the Iranian government have been arrested after clashes overnight in Tehran.

Tens of thousands of mourners turned the funeral of Iran’s leading dissident cleric into an anti-government protest today.

TWO convicted serial rapists have been hanged publicly in Najafabad in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported yesterday.