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China, Iran censor web: rights group

AFP: China's "sophisticated and multi-layered" efforts to censor and control the Internet earned it a "not free" rating by a US rights group in...

Hundreds executed in Iran in 2008 – Amnesty

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 24 - Iran executed at least 346 people in 2008, a prominent international human rights organisation said on Tuesday. ...

Iran blogger jailed for Khamenei insult dies

AFP: A young Iranian blogger jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died, his lawyer told AFP...

Iran hangs four men

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 12 - Iranian authorities hanged four men in a town in eastern Iran, state media reported on Thursday. ...

Dissidents say man ‘secretly’ stoned to death in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 11 – A man was ‘secretly’ stoned to death in a prison in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, the...

Five men hanged in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 10 - Iranian authorities hanged five men in central and south-eastern Iran earlier this week, state media reported. ...

Iranian political prisoner dies

RFE/RL: Iranian political prisoner Amir Heshmat Saran has died at the Rajayi Hospital in the city of Karaj, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. ...

Iran confirms detention of US journalist

AFP: Iran confirmed on Tuesday it was holding a freelance US journalist with Iranian nationality in a Tehran prison but did not reveal the...

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Food Inflation and the Erosion of the Middle Class in Iran’s Economy

Iran’s market no longer experiences stability. Prices are rising at a pace that wages cannot even begin to match....

Infighting Intensifies Among the Iranian Regime’s Factions

Infighting among the Iranian regime’s ruling factions has entered a new phase. At a time when economic crisis, social...

120th Week of ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’: Political Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike in 56 Iranian Prisons Amid Escalating Crackdown

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, political prisoners across 56 prisons in Iran launched a renewed hunger strike, marking the...

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Iranian Citizens Face Drug Shortages and Health Crisis

Turmoil in the pharmaceutical and medical supply market and...

Behind the Internet Shutdown: The Iranian Regime’s Black Market

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