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Iran: Assailants open fire on government official

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – A government official from the town of Chabahar (southeast Iran) was gunned down by unknown assailants in...

Rice: U.S. probing Iran leader’s role in embassy seizure

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jul. 11 – The United States continues its investigation into the role of ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 1979...

Iran declares new crackdown on women, “social vice”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 11 - With the arrival of a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as the country’s new police chief,...

Attack on Rafsanjani signals rising strife in Iran theocracy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – The son of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was heard as saying back in April that “we...

Senior Iran cleric says fake ballots were used to elect Ahmadinejad

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – In a poignant letter to Iran’s outgoing President Mohammad Khatami, Hojjatol-Islam Mehdi Karroubi accused “an autocratic political...

Iran news agency says Israel behind London and Iraq bombings

Iran Focus: Brussels, Jul. 10 – A news agency run by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was...

Iran exiles hold protest rallies in 40 cities worldwide

Iran Focus: London/Berlin/Washington, DC, Jul. 10 – Iranian exiles in 40 different cities in Europe and North America held rallies, gatherings, and seminars on...

Iran puts police under Revolutionary Guards control

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 10 – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as the country’s new police...

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Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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