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Iran’s news agency chief resigns after dispute with minister

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 – The head of Iran’s official news agency IRNA, Ahmad Khadem-Almelleh, has resigned from his post over a...

“An eye for an eye” – Iran hands out gruesome punishment

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 – An Iranian court in the north-eastern city of Mashad sentenced a man to have one of his...

Text of Rice’s interview with Wall Street Journal on Iran

Iran Focus: London, Sep. 26 - The following are excerpts of an interview by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the editorial...

Iran steps up executions in volatile region

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 26 – Iranian authorities have hanged three prisoners in the south-eastern city of Zahedan, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported...

Rights group “greatly concerned” by targeted arrests in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Sep. 26 - The international human rights group Amnesty International is "greatly concerned" by a continuing crackdown by Iranian authorities against...

Iran’s Ahmadinejad sacks cabinet minister

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 25 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked on Monday his Minister of Welfare and Social Security, marking the first...

Iran cracks down on public eaters during holy month

Iran Focus: Hamedan, Iran, Sep. 25 – State Security Forces (SSF) in the western city of Hamedan have announced that they would crack down...

Four men hanged in south-eastern Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 25 – Iranian authorities have hanged four men in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan, according to a state-run daily....

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Iran’s Economic Growth Decline Accelerates

The Statistical Center of Iran, a government agency of Iran's regime, announced in its latest report that the country's...

New Wave of Protests Across Various Iranian Cities

On June 21 and 22, a new wave of protest gatherings emerged across various cities in Iran. Students, university...

126th Week of ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign in 57 Prisons

In the 126th week of the protest campaign "No to Executions Tuesdays," political prisoners in 57 prisons across Iran...

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