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Islamic vigilantes assist police in cracking down on dissent

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – The newly-appointed Iran police chief said that as part of a new policy to aggressively crack down...

Workers blockade main road in southwest Iran town

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – Some 300 angry workers from the small industrial town of Ghazveen, southwest Iran, blockaded the town’s main...

Iran’s Islamist forces annex peasants’ land

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – Iran’s para-military Bassij forces in the coastal province of Mazandaran, northern Iran, annexed pastures belonging to farmers...

Yemen appeals court convicts two men of terror links to Iran

Iran Focus: London, Sep. 08 – A criminal appeals court in Yemen upheld a ruling against two individuals on terrorism charges and working on...

Iran launches 20-day crackdown

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Iran’s State Security Forces have started a 20-day-long crackdown on “trouble-makers”, Iran’s state-run press, quoting the country’s...

Two Kurdish activists hanged in prison in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Two Iranian Kurdish activists were hanged in a prison in the town of Orumieh, northwest Iran, for...

Iran to speed up flogging of women for “bad” veil

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres...

International spotlight vexes Iran’s police chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Iran’s newly-installed chief of police warned a meeting of his task force commanders on Tuesday that they...

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Child Laborers: The Silent Victims of Poverty and Inflation in Iran

On June 15, the state-run Shargh newspaper published a report on child labor titled "Childhood on a Work Shift,"...

Iran’s Regime Executes Political Prisoners Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi

Iran's regime hanged two young men, Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi, in the early hours of Tuesday, June 16,...

Iran’s Healthcare System on Verge of Crisis as Nurses Migrate En Masse

The crisis of nursing staff shortages in Iran, driven by the migration of nurses, has once again come into...

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Cyberattack on Iranian Regime Banks Causes Widespread Disruptions in Banking Services

A cyberattack seriously affected the financial resources of the...

Volker Türk: At Least 40 People Executed on Security-Related Charges in Iran

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