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Iran blasted for hanging of girl in chastity case

Chicago Sun Times: A leading human rights group on Tuesday  denounced Iran's reported public execution of a teen girl in a controversial chastity case.The...

Girl, 16, Hanged in Public in Iran

Iran Focus On Sunday, August 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town  of Neka, northern Iran, was executed. Atefeh Sahaleh was hanged in public...

Iran Hangs Three Drug Smugglers in Public – Paper

Reuters: Iran has hanged three drug smugglers in a public square in the southern province of Kerman, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper reported on Saturday....

Iranian Parliament Refuses To Define Political Crimes

AFP: Iran's conservative-controlled parliament on Wednesday blocked a plan to define political crimes which would have clarified the status of political prisoners, said the...

IRAN’S RULERS FEAR THE PEOPLE

VOA: Like despotic rulers everywhere, the extremist Muslim clerics who run Iran consider the people their greatest enemy. That is why, says U.S. National...

US, Canada to Cooperate on Iran, Canadian Foreign Minister Says

Radio Farda: US and Canada pledged to cooperate on pressing Iran to end its nuclear program and bring to justice those responsible for the...

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UNITED NATIONS: Press Release - The following statement was issued today by the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression,...

Iranian Prosecutor Shuts 2 Newspapers

Washington Post: An Iranian prosecutor has ordered the closures of two newspapers that reported last week on a trial involving a case in which...

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US Slaps New Sanctions on Iran’s Drone Program

On Thursday, April 25, the United States imposed new sanctions on the regimes of Iran and Russia. According to a...

Iran’s Regime Sentences Singer Toomaj Salehi to Death

Amir Reisian, Toomaj Salehi’s lawyer, says the so-called “Revolutionary Court” in an "unprecedented" move has sentenced this dissident singer...

Iran Faces Severe Medicine Shortage and Lack of Government Funding

The Health and Treatment Commission of Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) recently released a report highlighting the dire situation of...

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Grossi: Iran Weeks Away from Having Enough Enriched Uranium for Atomic Bomb

Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic...

US Slaps New Sanctions on Iran’s Drone Program

On Thursday, April 25, the United States imposed new...

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