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Iran arrests 5 musicians over dissident contacts

AP: Iranian police have arrested five members of an underground band suspected of producing music for Farsi-speaking, dissident satellite channels based in...

Labour activist wins temporary prison leave

Iran Focus: Reza Shahabi, a member of the Board of Directors Tehran’s Bus Drivers Syndicate, who had gone on a hunger strike 23...

Iran to hang dissidents on bogus charges

Iran Focus: Friday prayer leader of the northwestern town of Marivan has gone to Tehran to prevent the prosecutor general and the...

Iran lawmakers find cyber police guilty of blogger death: Mehr

Bloomberg: Iran’s parliament said the Tehran branch of the cyber police unit is responsible for the death in detention of a blogger who...

Iran designing software for controlled social media access

AFP: Iran is designing "intelligent software" that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media on...

Activist stages hunger strike in prison

Iran Focus: Reza Shahabi, a member of the Board of Directors Tehran’s Bus Drivers Syndicate, has staged a hunger strike in prison for...

Blogger’s death stirs political hornet’s nest in Iran

Reuters: Like many of his peers, the 35-year-old laborer was devout and lived at home with his mother. But his life changed when he...

US ‘aware’ of report of jailed pastor in Iran

AP: The U.S. State Department says it is in contact with the family of a man described by activists as an Iranian-American Christian...

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Canadian Federal Court Rejects Salman Samani’s Request to Halt Deportation

The Federal Court of Canada has rejected Salman Samani's request to halt his deportation from Canada. Samani served as...

Middle Eastern Countries Seek Ways to Move Oil Through the Strait of Hormuz

An Iraqi government source told the Iraqi news outlet Shafagh News that Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is...

Iran’s Regime Plans Fuel Rationing, Higher Gasoline Prices Within Next 15 Days

Esmail Saghab-Esfahani, a vice president of Iran's regime, said on Saturday, August 15, that Iran's daily gasoline consumption is...

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Iran’s Regime Cuts Food Voucher Benefits Under ‘Overseas Resident’ Label

In its latest move against low-income segments of society,...

Advisor to IRGC Commander: Our Doctrine Has Changed from Defensive to Offensive

Mohammad-Reza Naqdi, adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Islamic...

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