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Floods kill 27 in northeast Iran

Reuters: Floods caused by heavy rain killed 27 people in northeastern Iran on Sunday, state radio reported. It quoted a local governor as saying...

Protesting Iran human rights lawyer arrested

AFP: A colleague of the Nobel Prize winning Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Abdolfattah Soltani, was arrested on Saturday, a fellow lawyer said....

Iran confiscating minorities’ land says UN report

Reuters: Iran is denying basic amenities to its ethnic and religious minorities and in some cases confiscating their land, a preliminary U.N. report said...

Iran media fuel row with London over opposition leader

Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 30 – Iran’s officials and state-owned media have been launching virulent attacks on the British government for supposedly hosting an...

Iran’s censors stop popular play on murder of dissidents

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 – The showing of a play staged by Iran’s leading playwright and theatre director came to an abrupt...

Iran lawyer for slain journalist takes refuge to avoid arrest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 – A human rights lawyer representing the family of slain Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi turned up unexpectedly at...

Iran Kurds stage new protest as unrest continues

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 – Some 300 Kurdish activists gathered on Saturday at a sit-in outside the governor’s office in Iran’s western...

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Iran’s judiciary has arrested several executives of a privately-owned oil drilling company over their dealings with the...

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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 Saeedi

Iran's regime hanged two young men, Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saeedi, 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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Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources...

Ali Khamenei’s Corpse and the Spectacle of a Dictator’s Burial

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