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Student demonstration in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 23 – Students in Allameh Tabatabai University protested against the extended detention of a fellow student activist who was...

Rafsanjani reassures Iran’s ultra-conservatives, praises Revolutionary Guards

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 23 - Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told a meeting of senior Revolutionary Guards commanders that he has not...

Iran elections round-up

Iran Focus and wire services:Iran Government Spokesman: Votes are being boughtNew poll puts Tehran mayor aheadIran revolution 'at stake' in election: Rowhani ...

Iran journalist sentenced to 3 months in prison

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 22 – A court in Iran’s holy city of Qom has sentenced a journalist to 91 days in prison...

Iran’s Rafsanjani “one of us”: ultra-conservative figure

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 22 – The leader of the main ultra-conservative political grouping in Iran’s clergy-dominated regime described former President Ayatollah Ali...

Iran pre-election poll: Ahmadinejad 48%, Rafsanjani 36%

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 22 – One of Iran’s state-run news agencies announced the results of a pre-election poll for the election run-off due...

Iran election fraud: 298,000 votes from 270,000 eligible in NE province

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 22 – In Iran’s South Khorrasan province (north-eastern Iran) 298,000 ballots were counted in the first round of the presidential...

Iran election digest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 21 - Action will be taken against SMS advertisersPro-Rafsanjani website says Supreme Leader prays for election frontrunnerKhatami implicitly backs Rafsanjani...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

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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