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Report: Iran on pace for record year for capital punishment

Fox News: Iran has reportedly executed at least 183 people during the first six months of 2011, with reports of an additional 130 executions...

Iran jails prominent lawyer for 9 years

AP: Iran's hard-line judiciary has sentenced a prominent rights lawyer to nine years in jail and barred him from working as an attorney for...

EU names Iranian Guard commanders in Syria sanctions

Reuters: The European Union published extended sanctions on Syria on Friday, including the names of three commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard accused of supporting...

Lawmakers want U.N. rights auditor barred from Iran

Reuters: Iranian lawmakers urged the government on Sunday to prevent a U.N. investigator from coming to the country to look into allegations of human...

UN rights investigator on Iran named

Reuters: A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Ahmed Shaheed, was named United Nations human rights investigator on Iran on Friday, the first in...

“Dozens arrested” at service for Iran activist: report

Reuters: Dozens of people were arrested at a commemoration service Saturday for an Iranian activist who died at her father's funeral earlier in the...

EU deplores Iran’s execution of juvenile offenders

AFP: The EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Friday condemned the public execution of juvenile offenders in Iran last week and urged Tehran...

Iran steps up rate of public executions: Amnesty

Reuters: Iran has sharply stepped up its use of public executions, hanging 13 men this year, nearly as many as in all of 2010,...

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Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar’s Final Letter Offers a Personal Account from Iran’s Death Row

Iran’s regime tries to shut the voice of dissidents through brutal executions. But in the case of Ali Akbar...

Iranian Political Prisoner Mohammad Abbasi Hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison

In the early hours of Wednesday, May 13, the judiciary of the Iranian regime executed Mohammad Abbasi, a 55-year-old...

Iran’s Employment Crisis: The Increase in Unemployment Insurance Registrations

The increase in unemployment insurance applicants reflects the chaotic condition of workers following the warmongering policies of the clerical...

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Iran’s Inflation Crisis: A Monster Nurtured by the Power Structure

Iran’s inflation crisis is no longer a temporary phenomenon...

Infighting Intensifies Among the Iranian Regime’s Factions

Infighting among the Iranian regime’s ruling factions has entered...

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