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Bush denounces Iran elections as undemocratic

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 16 – In a strongly-worded statement that is likely to have repercussions beyond tomorrow’s presidential election in Iran, United...

Hundreds protest Iran elections in Tehran park

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 – Some 300 Iranians demonstrated outside Mellat Park in Tehran this morning chanting anti-government slogans and urging people to...

Ex-French First Lady: Iran preventing rights violations from coming to light

Iran Focus: Geneva, Jun. 16 – An international rights group led by the former First Lady of France held a press conference in Geneva...

Iran student body calls for boycott, warns of “rigged turnout figures”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 - The Office for the Strengthening of Unity (OSU), the main student body operating legally in Iran, adopted a...

Iran election news round-up

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15Supreme Leader: Voting a 'religious duty'When hardliners complain of being demonised!Bombings will increase voter turnout: Judiciary chiefKhatami warns of “organised...

Iran clerics setting stage for electoral fraud: opposition

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 15 – Faced with widespread apathy and a nationwide call for a boycott of the June 17 presidential elections, the...

Iran’s ex-Revolutionary Guards chief abandons race

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 – A day after Iran Focus predicted that Mohsen Rezai, one of the five ex-Revolutionary Guards commanders in the...

Protests break out in Iran capital against election candidate

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 – Iranian students from Tehran’s Lecturers’ Training College yesterday evening demonstrated against presidential hopeful Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, clashing with security...

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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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Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Enters 124th Week

On Tuesday, June 9, the "No to Executions Tuesdays"...

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

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