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Iran editor jailed for insulting leaders

Reuters: An Iranian journalist has been jailed for 14 years on charges ranging from espionage to insulting the country's leaders in an unusually heavy...

The price paid for blogging Iran

BBC: Iran is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to keep an online diary. Web logs have become a popular forum for dissent. And the...

Hunger strike in Iran prison enters third week

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 17 - A hunger strike by seven political prisoners in Iran's Rajaii Shahr prison near Karaj (west of Tehran) has...

Appeal court confirms prison for cyber-dissident while blogger is reimprisoned

Reporters Without Borders: Condemning the imprisonment of two Iranian Internet users in the past 10 days, Reporters Without Borders said Iran was undergoing the...

Nobel prize winner accuses Iranian justice of obstruction

AFP: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi accused Iran's hardline judiciary on Monday of doing all it could to prevent human rights lawyers from...

Iran: Political Prisoners Held with Violent Criminals

Human Rights Watch: The confinement of political prisoners in Iran together with violent criminals endangers their lives, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...

Mullahs tighten grip as US looks to Iran

Scotland on Sunday: SABRE-rattling by George W Bush against Iran as the world’s primary state sponsor of terrorism has given the mullahs who run...

Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 04 – A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily...

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The German Government Will Not Receive the Son of Iran’s Last Shah

Following reports of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, traveling to Germany to attend...

700,000 Jobs Lost in Iran as A Result of War

While the fate of the war in the region remains uncertain, reports from Iran indicate a suffocating livelihood crisis...

Iran: How Pahlavi’s Name Stole the January 2026 Uprising

In the biting cold of mid-January 2026, the air in Tehran’s Vali-e-Asr Square was thick with the scent of...

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Escalating Executions in Iran Put EU Policy Under Scrutiny

A conference held at the European Parliament in Brussels...

Hollow Show of Power by Supporters of Iran’s Regime in the Streets

While the consequences of around 50 days of conflict...

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Iran Focus: London, Aug. 13 – Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s...